Lithobius (Monotarsobius) curtipes C.L. Koch, 1847

Nefediev, P. S., Farzalieva, G. Sh., Tuf, I. H. & Efimov, D. A., 2020, The first records of lithobiid centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) from the Kemerovo Area, southwestern Siberia, Russia, Invertebrate Zoology 17 (1), pp. 36-43 : 41

Lithobius (Monotarsobius) curtipes C.L. Koch, 1847

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MATERIAL EXAMINED (all Russia, southwestern Siberia, Kemerovo Area). 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ (ASU), Novokuznetsk District , ca 8 km E Kuzedeevo, left bank of Malyi Tiosh River , mixed forest, 9.VIII.2000; 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 3 juv. (ASU), same District , ca 8 km E Kuzedeevo, right bank of Malyi Tiosh River , Tilia sibirica , onhillslope, soilsampling, byhand, 9.VIII.2000, all leg. P.S. Nefediev , A. V. Udaloj ; 2 ♀♀, 1 juv. (ASU), same District, ca 6 km E Kuzedeevo, left bank of Malyi Tiosh River , Betula pendula and Populus tremula forest, soil sampling, by hand, 10.VIII.2000, leg. A. V. Udaloj ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 6 juv. (ASU), same District, ca 8 km E Kuzedeevo, left bank of Malyi Tiosh River , mixed forest, 10.VIII.2000 ; 4 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀, 5 juv. (ASU), same District , ca 6 km E Kuzedeevo, Tilia sibirica grove, on hill top, soil sampling, by hand, 12.VIII.2000, all leg. P.S. Nefediev ; 1 ♂ (PSU-918), Krapivinskii District , 5–6 km N of Taradanovo, 54°40′N, 86°41′E, Populus tremula forest, in litter and rotten logs, 13.VIII.2017 ; 1 ♀ (PSU-804), Yashkino District , 2–3 km N of Pacha, 55°43′23.8″N 85°29′28.6″E, Betula pendula forest, 26. VI.2018, all leg. D.A. Efimov.

DISTRIBUTION. A trans-Palaearctic species widely distributed in Europe, the Urals, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula, Asian Russia, Kazakhstan, and northern Mongolia ( Zalesskaja, 1978; Farzalieva, Esyunin, 2008; Bonato et al., 2016; Poloczek et al., 2016; Dyachkov, 2019). In Siberia, this species has previously been recorded from the Krasnoyarsk Province ( Stuxberg, 1876a, b: as L. captivus ; Vorobiova, 1999; Rybalov, 2002; Vorobiova et al., 2002), the Altais and the Novosibirsk Area ( Zalesskaja, 1978), the Tyumen Area ( Striganova, Poryadina, 2005; Sergeeva, 2010, 2013; Bukhkalo, Sergeeva, 2012; Bukhkalo et al., 2014), the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous regions ( Striganova, Poryadina, 2005), the Altai Province and the Tomsk Area ( Nefediev et al., 2016, 2017b, 2018), the Omsk Area ( Nefediev et al., 2017c), and the Republic of Altai ( Nefediev et al., 2017a).

REMARKS. This species is herewith recorded from the Kemerovo Area for the first time.

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Map 3. Distribution of Lithobius (Monotarsobius) curtipes (white square) and L. (M.) crassipes (black asterisk) in the Kemerovo Area. Карта 3. Распространение Lithobius (Monotarsobius) curtipes (белый квадрат) и L. (M.) crassipes (чернаЯ ЗвеЗда) в Кемеровской области.