Dyachkov Yu.V. 2025. A new species of the centipede genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 from Turkmenistan, Middle Asia (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.3: 312–321 [in English].
Altai State University, Lenin Avenue, 61, Barnaul 656049 Russia.
Yurii Dyachkov: dyachkov793@mail.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9256-9306
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.02
ABSTRACT. Hessebius kopetdagicus sp.n. is described based on five specimens of both sexes from Turkmenistan. The new species is similar to H. multicalcaratus Folkmanová, 1958, H. scythodes Volkova, 2016, and H. zalesskajae Farzalieva, 2017, but it differs well in the larger body (23–25 mm, vs. 9–21 mm in H. multicalcaratus, 14–16 mm in H. scythodes, and 14–19 mm in H. zalesskajae), and by the secondary sexual characters of ♂ legs 14 and 15: both femora of legs 14 and 15 shortened (about as long as prefemora), vs. femora 14 and 15 longer than prefemora in H. multicalcaratus, H. scythodes, and H. zalesskajae. The new species also shows a strongly swollen tibia 15 with a dark pore blot on the dorsal side and a deep anterodorsal depression merged with the lateral one, vs. tibia 15 is less strongly swollen and devoid of such anterodorsal depressions and pore blots in H. multicalcaratus, H. scythodes, and H. zalesskajae.
KEY WORDS: myriapods, taxonomy, iconography, “Central Asia”.