New records of lophoproctus coecus Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda, polyxenida, lophoproctidae) extend the range of the genus Lophoproctus

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The geographic distribution of the genus Lophoproctus Pocock, 1894 has greatly expanded with new re­cords of the species Lophoproctus coecus Pocock, 1894, together with the reassignment of a number of millipedes formerly identified as Lophoproctus lucidus (Chalande, 1888). L. coecus was found to be the sole representative of the family Lophoproctidae in collections examined from Crimea and the Caucasian region. The species was also identified from Iran and Kyrgyzstan. Lophoproctus specimens collected in Italy by Verhoeff were reassigned as L. coecus with the exception of one specimen of L. jeanneli (Brölemann, 1910) from Capri. These data were combined with all available information from the literature to look at the pattern of distribution of the four species in the genus. The range of the genus Lophoproctus extends from Portugal to Central Asia. Lophoproctus coecus is widespread from Italy eastward, while the morpho­logically very similar species L. lucidus is confined to France and northern Africa. The two species have a narrow overlap in the Alpes Maritimes region of France. L. jeanneli has a scattered coastal distribution around the Mediterranean Sea. The troglobitic species L. pagesi (Condé, 1982) has only been recorded from a cave on Majorca, Spain.

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Short, M. (2015). New records of lophoproctus coecus Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda, polyxenida, lophoproctidae) extend the range of the genus Lophoproctus. ZooKeys, 2015(510), 209–222. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.510.8668

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