Shearia calycina Mikhaljova 2000
Creators: name: Mikhaljova, Elena V.
name: Nefediev, Pavel S.
name: Nefedieva, Julia S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Diplomaragnidae
Shearia
Shearia calycina

description: Shearia calycina Mikhaljova 2000
Shearia calycina Mikhaljova 2000: 166 –167, 167: figs 37–38.
Shearia calycina — Mikhaljva & Golovatch 2001: 110; Mikhaljova 2004: 163 –164, 163: figs 379–380, 164: map 22.
Material examined (all from Russia, Siberia, Republic of Altai, Kosh-Agach District, collected by P.S. Nefediev and J.S. Nefedieva): 1 male, 3 females, 7 juveniles (CN), 22 km SSE of Belyi Bom, near Achik, sparse growth of Pinus sibirica with Larix sibirica, Betula rotundifolia, Lonicera altaica, 2,000–2,200 m a.s.l., 22 July 2006; 1 male, 1 female, 2 juveniles (CN), 1 male (IBSS), 22 km SSE of Belyi Bom, near Achik, S riverside slope of Shavla River, subalpine meadow, under Pentaphylloides fruticosa, 22 July 2006.
Distribution: Russia: Siberia (Republic of Altai).
Remarks: Originally described from 2,800 m a.s.l., northern extremity of Yuzhno-Chuiskii Mt. Range, watershed of Sebystei and Kokuzek rivers, South Altai Mts (Mikhaljova 2000), this species has since never been rediscovered. Therefore, the above samples are the first records of this species at 2,000–2,200 m a.s.l. in the northwest extremity of Severo-Chuiskii Mt. Range.
Shearia densecava (Guli ě ka 1972)
Altajosoma densecavum Guliċka 1972: 38, 37: fig 2.
Altajosoma densecavum — Lokšina & Golovatch 1979: 382.
Diplomaragna densecava — Shear 1990: 38 –39; Mikhaljova 1993: 22.
Shearia densecava — Mikhaljova 2000: 165 –166, 166: figs 33–36; Mikhaljova & Golovatch 2001: 110; Mikhaljova & Nefediev 2003: 86.
Material examined (all from Russia, Siberia, Republic of Altai): 1 male (CN), Shebalino District, Kumalyr, 85° 34' – 51° 10', Larix sibirica park-like forest, 1,050 m a.s.l., collected 14 August 2005 by A.S. Babenko; (all below from Ulagan District, collected by P.S. Nefediev and J.S. Nefedieva) 1 male (CN), 1 male (IBSS), 15 km NNW of Aktash, Taldukel’ Lake, forest (Larix sibirica), 17–18 July 2006; 2 males, 1 female, 10 juveniles (CN), near ford on the left bank of Kalbakaya River, 89° 05' – 50° 21', sparse growth of Larix sibirica with Pinus sibirica and Betula rotundifolia on the hill slope, 25 July 2006; 2 males (CN), 25 km NNE of Aktash, Ulagan Pass, sparse growth of Pinus sibirica and Larix sibirica with Betula rotundifolia, 2,080 m a.s.l., 31 July 2006; 2 males (CN), Aktash, top of Sardyma Mt., forest (Pinus sibirica, Larix sibirica), 5 August 2006; 3 males (CN), 18 km NNW of Aktash, NW of Sorulukel’ Lake, top of the hill, forest (Pinus sibirica, Larix sibirica), 10 August 2007; 1 male, 27 juveniles (CN), 18 km NNW of Aktash, SW of Sorulukel’ Lake, bottom of N slope of Aigulakskii Mt. Range, forest (Pinus sibirica, Larix sibirica with Betula rotundifolia), 11 August 2007; 1 male, 1 female (CN), 18 km NNW of Aktash, SW of Sorulukel’ Lake, forest (Pinus sibirica, Larix sibirica), under mushroom cap, 12 August 2007; 1 male (CN), 18 km NNW of Aktash, NW of Sorulukel’ Lake, forest (Pinus sibirica, Larix sibirica), 13 August 2007.
Distribution: Russia: Siberia (Republic of Altai).
Remark s: At present Kumalyr is the northernmost record of this species, and Kalbakaya River is the easternmost one.
description: Published as part of Mikhaljova, Elena V., Nefediev, Pavel S. & Nefedieva, Julia S., 2008, A new species and new records of millipedes of the family Diplomaragnidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida) from Altai, pp. 49-56 in Zootaxa 1931 on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184844