Schizoturanius krugovae Nefediev 2022, sp. nov.

• Main Author: Nefediev, Pavel S.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Polydesmidae; Schizoturanius; Schizoturanius krugovae; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6989295; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/4663867A3E349C5174F2BECFFA24FF7B

Schizoturanius krugovae sp. nov. Figs 1, 3–46 Schizoturanius sp. 2 – Krugova et al. 2018: 341. Material examined. Holotype male (ZMUM Rd 4671), Russia, southwestern Siberia, Altai Krai, Zmeinogorsk District, left bank of Malaya Amelikha River, 51.0655°N, 82.7754°E, 570 m a.s.l., middle and low part of very steep N slope, chern taiga ( Abies sibirica forest with single Betula pendula , Caragana arborescens and Padus avium , Carex plentifully), pitfall traps, 8 June – 2 July 2016, collected by T.M. Krugova. Paratypes : 2 males, 1 female, 5 juveniles (ASU), same data as holotype; 1 male, 1 juvenile (ASU), Russia, southwestern Siberia, Altai Krai, Charyshskoye District, left bank of Inya River, environs of abandon village of Kamyshenka, ca. 6 air-km SE of Tigirek, 51.1167°N, 83.1155°E (now included in TSNR), 585 m a.s.l., N slope, chern taiga ( Abies sibirica forest with Betula pendula ), pitfall traps, 18 June – 3 July 2016, collected by T.M. Krugova; 1 male (ZMUM Rd 4672, voucher D113, GenBank OM 892667), Russia, southwestern Siberia, Altai Krai, Krasnoshchiokovo District, ca. 6 air-km NW of Tigirek, right bank of Khankhara River, 51.1931°N, 82.9800°E, 920 m a.s.l., upper part of N slope, Betula pendula and Larix sibirica forest with bushes, soil sample (0–10 cm deep), 19 August 2016, collected by T.M. Krugova, L.Yu. Gruntova, V. V. Zelenskii, K. V. Smirnova, A.E. Pupkova, M.N. Terioshkina & R. V. Shcherbakova. Diagnosis. Differs from all congeners mainly by the strongly elongated, slim and curved distal part of the gonopod endomere and its bifid apex ( vs . shorter, subequal in size or less elongated, its apex never bifid in other species), and the postfemoral region of the endomere is with a thin, straight, subulate external process, which is almost nonserrate ( vs . curved, hook-shaped, serrate or long, flat, not hook-shaped, serrate or even without an external process in other species). Name. Honours Mrs. Tatyana M. Krugova, the collector and a well-known Russian myrmecologist. Noun in genitive case. ...