Strigamia sacolinensis ( Meinert, 1870 )

Strigamia sacolinensis ( Meinert, 1870) View in CoL *

References for morphology: Meinert 1870; Seliwanoff 1884.

Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Scolioplanes View in CoL , it was subsequently cited also under Linotaenia . Other specimens were recorded and the validity of the species was never questioned. It is assigned here to Strigamia View in CoL for the first time ( new combination), because it shares all the major diagnostic features of Strigamia View in CoL (see above under “Notes on synonymies”). However, published descriptions suggest that it could be a senior synonym of either S. hirsutipes View in CoL or S. japonica View in CoL , because the only differential character recognized is the putative projection of the forcipules in front of the anterior margin of the head ( Meinert 1870) but this condition is not known in any other species of Strigamia View in CoL or related genera and it can be due to some post-mortem displacement of the head with respect to the trunk (our obs. in other geophilomorphs).

Distribution: southern part of Siberia, from central Asia to Sakhalin island.