Polydesmus racovitzai
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Ordo: Polydesmida
Familia: Polydesmidae
Genus: Polydesmus
Name
Polydesmus racovitzai Brolemann, 1910 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Polydesmus racovitzai Brolemann, 1910: 352: Attems 1927[1]: 55, Demange 1981[2]: 125, figs 170, 171.
- Polydesmus (Hormobrachium) racovitzai Brolemann, 1910: Attems 1940[3]: 48.
- Propolydesmus racovitzai (Brolemann, 1910): Enghoff and Golovatch 2003[4]: 82, Kime and Enghoff 2011[5]: 69, Djursvoll and Melic 2015[6]: 8.
Material examined
SPAIN – Viscaya province • 1 ♂; 4 km s of Arrazua; pinewood; Desmond Kime leg.; 4.4.1978; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-49. – Gipuzkoa province • 1 ♂; Sierra de Aralar, Tolosa, 500 m south of Bedaio/Goikoa; 43.0494N, 2.04W; ca. 420 m a.s.l.; 21.4.2009; Helen Read leg.; farm buildings, under stones and logs; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-66 • 2 ♂♂; same collecting data as for preceding; 22.4.2009; Desmond Kime leg.; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-146, ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-194)• 1 ♂; Sierra de Aralar, Beasain, road from Lazkao to Etxarri-Aranaz, west of the Pass Puerto de Lizzarusti; 42.9572N, 2.1122W; ca. 550 m a.s.l.; 21.4.2009; Voigtlander, Reip & Lindtner leg.; forest of Fagus, in leaf litter; SMNG-14763. – Navarra province • 2 ♂♂, 2 juveniles; Leitza, Ariz Mendiak, between area “Ustarleku” and “Karobieta” above side stream to Gorriztaran; 43.0778N, 1.8775W; ca. 615 m a.s.l.; 20.04.2009; Per Djursvoll leg.; grove of Castanea, pollard trees on the slope with Ranunculus ficaria, Daphne, Helleborus, Salvia, Rubus, Lathrea, loamy and calcareous soil, under leaves and dead wood; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-133, ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-135 • 1 ♂; Leitza, town area; 43.0788N, 1.9161W; ca. 470 m a.s.l.; 20.4.2009; Steve J. Gregory leg.; garden around casa rurale Aztieta; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-185 • 1 ♂, ♀; Lekunberri, local exit N-130 direction to Betelu, 43.011N, 1.902W; ca. 580 m a.s.l.; 20.4.2009; Per Djursvoll leg.; industrial area, synantropic, meadow with stones and brick waste, under stones; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-145 • 4 ♂♂, 1 juvenile; Sierra de Aralar, south Baraibar, on road NA-7510 to Santuario de San Miguel; 42.9762N, 1.9318W; ca. 670 m a.s.l.; 22.4.2009; Per Djursvoll leg; under stones, in Corylus litter; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-142 • 1 ♀, Sierra de Urbasa, Alava, under northern border, on road A-2128 south of Opakua, 42.821N, 2.3549W; ca. 740 m a.s.l.; 23.4.2009; Steve J. Gregory leg.; woodland of Corylus, Quercus and Crategus; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-181 • 1 ♀; Sierra de Urbasa, on top at southern cliff border, east of road NA-7182, 42.7989N, 2.1417W; ca. 930 m a.s.l.; 23.4.2009; Steve J. Gregory leg.; pasture on stony ground, some thorny bushes, occasional trees or groups of Fagus; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-176. FRANCE – Pyrénées-Atlantiques • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, 2 juveniles; Tarnos; 43.5203N, 1.4639E, ca. 30 m a.s.l.; 26.4.2009; Desmond Kime & Per Djursvoll leg. mixed deciduous forest; ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-143.
Notes. The species was described by Brolemann (1910) and is distributed in the French Pyrenees, and in northern Spain. Body length is 13–16 mm, the gonopods may resemble those of Polydesmus inconstans Latzel, 1884 (see Demange 1981: 125, figs 170– 171). It differs from P. inconstans in having a row of teeth dorsally on the endomere and if this character was not observed, probably misidentified as P. inconstans (Fig. 19) in the literature. It differs from species of the genus Propolydesmus with the presence of the well-developed exomere and endomere – with seminal groove and solenophore-pulvillus extended onto. These characters conform to those of the genus Polydesmus Latreille, 1802/03, and with its type species Polydesmus complanatus Linnaeus, 1761. Propolydesmus racovitzai is here transferred back to Polydesmus.
Taxon Treatment
- Djursvoll, P; 2019: Two new species of Polydesmus Latreille, 1802/1803 from northern Spain with reinstatements of two species, and a key to the Iberian Polydesmus species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae) ZooKeys, 888: 51-65. doi
Images
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![Figures 17–20. 17Propolydesmus laevidentatus (Loksa, 1967), from Madeira, right gonopod, medial view (ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-342) 18Propolydesmus laevidentatus (Loksa, 1967), from Madeira, right gonopod, lateral view (ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID-342) 19P. racovitzai (Brolemann, 1910) right gonopod, lateral view (MNCN 20.07/1435) 20P. haroi (Mauriès & Vicente, 1977) gonopod, redrawn after Mauriès and Vicente (1977)[7].](/wiki/File:Zookeys-888-051-g006.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ Attems C (1927) Über palaearktische Diplopoden.Archiv für Naturgeschichte92(1–2): 1–256.
- ↑ Demange J (1981) Les Mille-Pattes, Myriapodes, Généralités, Morphologie, Écologie – Détermination des espèces de France.Société Nouvelle des Éditions Boubée, Paris, 284 pp.
- ↑ Attems C (1940) Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Periodontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae.Das Tierreich70: 1–577. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111609645
- ↑ Enghoff H, Golovatch S (2003) The millipede genus Propolydesmus Verhoeff, 1895 redefined, with a revision of the genus in the Canary Islands (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae).Graellsia59(1): 79–86. https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia
- ↑ Kime R, Enghoff H (2011) Atlas of European Millipedes (Class Diplopoda). Volume 1, Orders Polyxenida, Glomerida, Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida, Polyzoniida, Callipodida, Polydesmida.Co-published by Pensoft Publishers Sofia-Moscow and European Invertebrate Survey, Leiden, 282 pp.
- ↑ Djursvoll P, Melic A (2015) Orden Polydesmida.Revista IDE@, SEA28: 1–11.
- ↑ Mauriès J, Vicente M (1977) Myriapodes Diplopodes nouveaux ou peu connus des Pyrénées espagnoles, des monts Cantabriques et de Galice. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, 3e série, Zoologie 315(452): 529–546.
