taxonID	type	description	language	source
D42C94B95702E0C9D383D1D1D6BBBCF7.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Lithobius proximus is the only representative of the subgenus Ezembius in Poland. Ezembius was regarded as a subgenus of the genus Lithobius by Eason (1974) for the group that occurred in eastern and northern Asia. Lithobius proximus was originally described from Irkutsk by Sseliwanoff (1878). Zalesskaja (1978) designated it as a Siberian species and later (Zalesskaja and Golovatch 1996) defined it as a centipede that inhabited the belt from the taiga to the steppe and suggested that the Volga River limited its spread to the west. This opinion was later repeated by Dyachkov (2017). Recently, this species was characterised as a widespread Siberian boreal species (Nefediev et al. 2017 a), and later it was judged as a Eurasian species widely distributed in Russia, specifically in the Altai area ranging from the taiga on the lake shore up to the mountain tundra at approximately 2200 m a. s. l. (Nefediev et al. 2017 b). Subsequently, Nefediev et al. (2018), referred to this species as an eastern European-Transsiberian temperate range species that occurred from the eastern Russian Plain (Republics of Mari El and Tatarstan, Kirov and Samara areas; i. e. respecting the Volga River line) in the west through Siberia to the Russian Far East (Maritime Province, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). However, Lithobius proximus was also repeatedly recorded in Ukraine, from the Kanev Nature Reserve on the Dnieper Lowland (Chornyi and Kosyanenko 2003, Kosyanenko and Chornyi 2008) and from the ' Chernyi Les' forest near Kirovograd on the Dnieper Upland (Kunakh 2013). Both stands are in the forest-steppe belt, and the nearest stand in the Kanev Nature Reserve is over 750 km in a straight line from the Wigry National Park in Poland. Thus, our records represent the western most points of the entire Lithobius proximus distribution area (Figure 9).	en	Wytwer, Jolanta, Tajovsky, Karel (2019): The Siberian centipede species Lithobiusproximus Sseliwanoff, 1878 (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha): a new member of the Polish fauna. ZooKeys 821: 1-10, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.821.32250, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.821.32250
