Golovatch S.I. 2024. New records of hothouse millipedes (Diplopoda) from Moscow City, Russia // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.33. No.2: 265–266 [in English].
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
Sergei Golovatch sgolovatch@yandex.ru ORCID 0000-0001-7159-5484
doi: 10.15298/10.15298/rusentj.33.2.13
ABSTRACT. A recent survey of the tropical and subtropical hothouses of the Main Botanical Garden in Moscow City, Russia, has revealed four species of millipedes, all apparently introductions. Oxidus gracilis (C.L. Koch, 1847) (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) is certainly the most common and widespread among the hot- or greenhouse Diplopoda not only in and around Moscow City, but perhaps across entire Russia, encountered on open grounds only in the Kanev Nature Reserve, Cherkassy Region, central Ukraine and along the Black Sea coast in southern Russia and Abkhazia. Poratia digitata (Porat, 1889) (Polydesmida: Pyrgodesmidae), a tropical, largely parthenogenetic species, is formally new to the fauna of European Russia, previously recorded in Russia only from a hothouse in Siberia. Nopoiulus kochii (Gervais, 1847) (Julida: Blaniulidae), a ubiquitous species very common in and around Moscow City, occurring both on open grounds and in hothouses. Cylindroiulus britannicus (Verhoeff, 1891) (Julida: Julidae), a subcosmopoitan species long reported from the environs of Moscow and St. Petersburg, but recorded in Russia from a hothouse for the first time.
KEY WORDS: faunistics, Main Botanical Garden, hothouses.