Byzantorhopalum (Byzantorhopalum) rossicum
Creators: name: Vagalinski, Boyan
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Julida
Julidae
Byzantorhopalum
Byzantorhopalum rossicum

description: Byzantorhopalum (Byzantorhopalum) rossicum (Timotheew, 1897) Fig. 1 Iulus rossicus Timotheew, 1897: 284-291, figs 21-31. Chromatoiulus (Donbrachyiulus) rossicus: Lohmander 1936: 109-112. Chromatoiulus (Donbrachyiulus) rossicus rossicus: Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 385. Megaphyllum rossicum rossicum: Golovatch 1984: 103-105, 111, 125-127, 130, fig. 5. Megaphyllum procerum: Golovatch 1990b: 364. Megaphyllum rossicum: Golovatch 1990b: 362, 364; Loginova 1993: 151-153; Golovatch and Matyukhin 2011: 116; Zuev 2014: 352, map 4. Byzantorhopalum (Byzantorhopalum) rossicum: Vagalinski and Lazányi 2018: 27-28, figs 11, 12, 17, 26. Material examined. <b>Azerbaijan</b>: 1 &amp;male; (SMNG), &amp;Idot;smay&amp;imath;ll&amp;imath; District, S of Zərgəran, 40.7310°N, 48.3680°E, 880 m a.s.l., slope with <i>Corylus</i>, <i>Clematis</i> and some <i>Prunus</i> trees, stone heaps overgrown by moss, mainly in thick litter and under stones, 30.III.2015, D. Anti&amp;cacute; and H. Reip leg.; 1 &amp;female; (SMNG), &amp;Idot;smay&amp;imath;ll&amp;imath; District, near Qurbanəfəndi, 1.3 road km towards Xanəgah, 40.8614°N, 48.1132°E, 640 m a.s.l., slope with <i>Fagus</i> and a single <i>Populus</i> tree, in litter, same date and collectors; 1 &amp;male;, 3 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 2 juv. (ZMUM), Alt&amp;imath;a&amp;gbreve;aç National Park, 1050-1100 m, mixed broadleaved forest, litter, 20 and 26.IV.1987, SIG and K. Eskov leg.; many &amp;male;&amp;male;, &amp;female;&amp;female;, juv. (ZMUM), SW of Quba, 750 m, <i>Fagus</i>, <i>Quercus</i>, <i>Carpinus</i> etc. forest, litter and under bark, 23.IV.1987, SIG and K. Eskov leg.; 1 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Shemakha District, Pirkuli, 1700 m, <i>Quercus</i>, <i>Taxus</i>, 22.XI.1962, T. Perel leg. <b>Georgia</b>: 1 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; (SMNG), Mtskheta-Mtianeti, valley of Andaki River, 2.2 km upstream of its confluence with Argun River, 42.5006°N, 45.2156°E, 1430 m a.s.l., 08.VIII.2014, F. Walther leg.; 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female; (SMNG), Mtskheta-Mtianeti, 1 km downstream of Mutso, 42.5006°N, 45.2156°E, 1530 m a.s.l., 9.VIII.2014, F. Walther leg.; 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female; (SMNG), NW of Stepantsminda, 42°40'1"N, 44°36'49"E, 2093 m a.s.l., <i>Juniperus</i>, 02.VII.2019, K. Voigtländer leg.; 2 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 3 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Stepantsminda, 8.VI.1974, M. Kokhia leg. <b>Russia</b>: 1 &amp;male; (SMNG 33575), Republic of Adygea, Novoprokhladnoye, 20.V.2004, K. Voigtländer leg.; 2 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 1 &amp;female; (ZMUM), Stavropol Province, Kursavka, <i>Acacia</i> and <i>Rosa</i> hedge alongside a road, sifted litter, 30.V.1982, SIG leg.; 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; (SMNG), Stavropol, Tamanskaya Dacha Forest, near Komsomolskiy Reservoir, 45.0481°N, 41.9567°E, 530 m a.s.l., deciduous forest (<i>Quercus</i>, <i>Carpinus</i>, <i>Acer</i>), 22.VIII.2012, F. Walther leg.; many &amp;male;&amp;male;, &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Stavropol Province, Novoaleksandrovsk, east end, X.2013, B. Korotyaev leg.; 4 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 1 &amp;female; (ZMUM), Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Chegemsky District, upper course of Chegem River, meadow, under stones, 1500 m, 12.VII.1986, SIG leg.; 3 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; (SMNG), Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, Alagirsky District, Borzikau, near Fiagdon River, 1200 m a.s.l., 42°50'37"N, 44°18'44"E, under stones, 11.V.2016, A.S. Sazhiev leg.; 3 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 3 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, North Ossetian State Nature Reserve, Tsey Valley, 23.VII.1984, S. Alekseev leg.; many &amp;male;&amp;male;, &amp;female;&amp;female;, juv. (ZMUM), Chechen Republic, Kharachoy, SE of Vedeno, 950 m, <i>Fagus</i>, <i>Carpinus</i> etc. forest, in litter, under bark and stones, 17.VII.1986, SIG leg.; many &amp;male;&amp;male;, &amp;female;&amp;female;, juv. (ZMUM), Chechen Republic, Argun Valley, 5 km N of Shatoy, <i>Corylus</i>, <i>Fagus</i>, <i>Carpinus</i> etc. forest, 750 m, in litter, under stones and bark, 18.VII.1986, SIG leg.; 4 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 7 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), 8 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 10 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Republic of Dagestan, Kazbekovskiy District, Dylym, <i>Fagus</i> and <i>Carpinus</i> forest, 13.VII.1985, K. Khajialiyev leg.; 8 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 10 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Republic of Dagestan, Almak, <i>Carpinus</i> forest, 15.VII.1985, K. Khajialiyev leg.; 6 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female; (ZMUM), Republic of Dagestan, Sergokalinskiy District, Murguk, <i>Quercus</i> forest, western slope, 4.III.1985, K. Khajialiyev leg.; 10 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 10 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Republic of Dagestan, Kayakentskiy District, <i>Quercus</i> forest, 27.VII.1985, K. Khajialiyev leg.; 4 &amp;male;&amp;male;, 7 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Republic of Dagestan, Botlikh Distrikt, Kharami Pass, 2150 m, subalpine meadow, under stones, 16.VII.1986, SIG leg.; 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female; (HNHM), Republic of Dagestan, Kurush, 3000 m a.s.l., 8.VII.1989, Z. Korsós leg. Descriptive notes. <b> <i>Gonopods</i>:</b> Promere (Fig. 1C and p in Fig. 1A, B) somewhat shorter than solenomere, with a well-developed median ridge and a deep and narrow median groove; flagellum of usual thickness; opisthomere (Fig. 1A, B, D) with a large lateral process with serrated mesal margin, and a basoposterior process with an apical outgrowth turned laterad; solenomere long (significantly exceeding promere), tubular, with a frontoapical acumination and a groove behind it; neither set- nor spiniform filaments at flagellum channel. <i>Vulva</i> (Fig. 1E) densely setose throughout, with operculum subequal to bursa. Previous records from the Caucasus. <b>Russia</b>: Environs of Kislovodsk (Timotheew 1897), many places across the northern Caucasus (Lohmander 1936), Stavropol Province (Zuev 2014). General distribution. Also known from eastern Ukraine, Crimea, and the Kursk, Orel, Voronezh, Belgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Volgograd, and Saratov regions in central and southern European Russia (Lokšina 1969; Prisnyi 2001). The subspecies <i>B. r. strandschanum</i> (Verhoeff, 1937) occurs in southeastern Bulgaria and northeastern Greece (Lazányi et al. 2012; Kime and Enghoff 2017). Despite its markedly disjunct distribution in relation to that of the nominate subspecies, until now, no reliable morphological characters to distinguish between the two taxa have been proposed (see also Vagalinski and Lazányi 2018). It thus seems that the usage of molecular data is the only way to define the nomenclatural faith of <i>B. r. strandschanum</i>. Remarks. The species is new to the faunas of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
description: Published as part of <i>Vagalinski, Boyan &amp; Golovatch, Sergei I., 2021, The millipede tribe Brachyiulini in the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae), pp. 1-127 in ZooKeys 1058</i> on page 1, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1058.68628
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