27. Escaryus dentatus Titova, 1973 *

Escaryus dentatus Titova 1973: 99.

Escaryus dentatus - Kurcheva 1977: 45; Markelov and Mineeva 1981: 130; Ganin 1997: 121, 124, 126, 128; 2006: 501.

Type localities.

Russia: Maritime krai: "Suputinsky zapovednik" = Ussuriysky Nature Reserve, ca 43°40'N, 132°32'E, and "Kedrovaya Pad" (both Titova 1973) = Kedrovaya Pad Nature Reserve, ca 43°05'N, 131°30'E, (see Remarks).

Type series.

Holotype: female. Paratypes: 11 specimens, including 6 males and 5 females. Deposited in ZMMU (S. Golovatch and A. Schileyko, pers. comm., 13.II.2023 and XII.2023).

Diagnosis.

An Escaryus species with body length reaching ≥ 2 cm; clypeus without plagulae (polygonal structure poorly visible, but recognizable); labral arc relatively shallow, with denticles short and obtuse; first maxillae with one pair of lappets; forcipular trochanteroprefemur and tarsungulum with large denticles, femur and tibia with small denticles; 37-39 leg-bearing segments; metasternites with relatively sparse setae; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment trapezoid, slightly longer than wide; coxal pores on both ventral and lateral sides of coxopleura; anal pores present.

Distribution.

Far East: Maritime krai (Titova 1973; Kurcheva 1977; Ganin 1997, 2006). Outside Asian Russia: no records.

Remarks.

Titova (1973) indicated that the type series was from two localities ("Suputinsky zapovednik" and "Kedrovaya Pad"), but she did not state explicitly which is the locality of the holotype.