Two remarkable new records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from far inland European Russia
Journal: Invertzool
Year: 2024

For the first time, the subcosmopolitan bristly millipede, Polyxenus lagurus (Linnaeus, 1758) is recorded from the Zhiguli State Nature Biosphere Reserve, middle-course region of the Volga River, east-central Russia.This concerns a parthenogenetic population and represents the easternmost record not only from European Russia, but also from entire Europe.The same habitat also supports the julid, Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927), a species subendemic to the Russian Plain and the Northern Cauca