New records of lithobiid centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Middle Asia

Abstract

The following taxa are new to the fauna of Uzbekistan: Australobius Chamberlin, 1920, A. magnus (Trotzina, 1894), Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941, H. plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978, Lithobius praeditus Zalesskaja, 1975, and L. javanicus (Zalesskaja, 1978). Order Lithobiomorpha is new to the Qashqadaryo and Surxondaryo regions of Uzbekistan; A. magnus is new to the Talas, Jalal-Abad, Chuy, and Batken regions of Kyrgyzstan. All the records are mapped.

Keywords

• australobius
• biodiversity
• fauna
• hessebius
• kyrgyzstan
• lithobiidae
• new records
• uzbekistan