Golovatch S.I.1*, Kurochkin A.S.2 2024. Two remarkable new records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from far inland European Russia // Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.21. No.2: 239–242 [in English].
1 Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
2 S.P. Korolev Samara National Research University, Moskovskoye hwy. 34, Samara 443086 Russia.
* Corresponding author
Sergei Golovatch sgolovatch@yandex.ru ORCID 0000-0001-7159-5484
Andrei Kurochkin nitidula@mail.ru ORCID 0009-0008-4413-6459
doi: 10.15298/invertzool.21.2.11
ABSTRACT. 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 Caucasus, similarly representing one of the easternmost records of the species.
KEY WORDS: faunistics, distribution, middle-course Volga Region, Russian Plain, Samara Region, Zhiguli Hills.