Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810)

Ostrovsky, A. M., 2018, The first record of Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810) (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae) in Belarus, Arthropoda Selecta 27 (1), pp. 31-32 : 31

Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810)

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MATERIAL EXAMINED. 5 ad., Republic of Belarus, Gomel Area, Gomel, the A.V. Lunacharsky Central Park, Sozh River bank, among household waste, 24.09.2016, all leg. et det. A.M. Ostrovsky.

Four of the above samples have been deposited in the author’s collection, but one specimen has been donated to the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University .

DISTRIBUTION. Being Central Asian-European in origin, the cryptopid scolopendromorph C. hortensis is widespread across most of Europe, currently known from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, mainland and insular Greece including Crete and the Dodecanese islands, Great Britain including the Channel Islands and Northern Ireland, Finland, mainland France including Corsica, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, mainland Italy as well as Sicily and Sardinia, Macedonia, Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, mainland Portugal as well as the Azores and Madeira, Romania, the European part of Russia (south of the Moscow Area, the Caucasus, the Krasnodar Province, the Stavropol Province), the Asian part of Russia (the city of Tomsk, Tomsk Area, the city of Barnaul, Altai Province), San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, mainland Spain and the Canary Islands, Sweden, Switzerland and Ukraine; also distributed in Western and Central Asia, inhabiting Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as Morocco. The species is also introduced to the United States including the Hawaiian Islands, Canada, St. Helena Island, Australia including Tasmania and Christmas Island [ Zalesskaja, Schileyko, 1991, 1992; Lewis, 2011; Minelli, Foddai, 2013; Zuev, 2016; Bonato et al., 2016; Korobushkin et al., 2016; Nefediev et al., 2016].

The family Cryptopidae , the genus Cryptops Leach, 1815 , as well as the widespread, often introduced C. hortensis , are all formally new to the centipede fauna of Belarus, reported from an anthropogenic habitat alone.

Figures

Fig. 1. Structural details of Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810) from the city of Gomel: A — anterior part of body, ventral view; B — rear tergites; C — posterior part of body, ventral view; D — posterior part of body, lateral view; E — prefemur, femur, tibia and tarsus of leg 21. Рис. 1. Детали строениЯ Cryptops hortensis (Donovan, 1810) иЗ города ГомелЯ: А — передний конец тела, вид сниЗу; В — Задние тергиты; С — Задний конец тела, вид сниЗу; D — Задний конец тела, вид сбоку; E — предбедро, бедро, голень и лапка ноги 21-й пары.