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The present work lists the genus Pachymerium C.L. Koch, 1847 and species P. ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835), as well as the family Geophilidae and the order Geophilomorpha, to which they belong, as new to the fauna of the Khovd Aimag in Mongolia. This species is also new to Kyrgyzstan and to the East Kazakhstan and Almaty Regions of Kazakhstan. Distribution map is provided. Keywords: Centipedes; Geophilidae; Pachymerium; faunistics; Kyrgyzstan; Mongolia; Kazakhstan References: Attems, C. (1904). Central- und hoch-asiatische Myriopoden. Gesammelt im Jahre 1900 von Dr. von Almassy und Dr. von Stummer. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 20, 113-130. Attems, C. (1929). Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich. De Gruyter, 52, 1-388. Bonato, L., Minelli, A., & Spu???is, V. (2005). Geophilomorph centipedes of Latvia (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha). Latvijas entomologs, 42(1), 5-17. Bragina, T. M. (2012). The inventory of the invertebrate fauna of Naurzum Reserve. In: Baymyrzaev, K. M., Abil, E. A., Bragina, T. M., Telegen, M., Ahmetova, T. A., & Kosynbaeva, D. T. (ed.), Material II International scientific conference “Biodiversity of Asian steppes”, Kostanay. (in Russian). Bragina, T. M. (2016). Soil macrofauna (invertebrates) of Kazakhstanian Stipa lessingiana dry steppe. Hacquetia, 15(2), 105-112. Bukhkalo, S. P., Galitch, D. E., Sergeeva, E. V., & Vazhenina, N. V. (2014). Synopsis of the invertebrate fauna of the southern taiga in western Siberia (the basin of the Lower Irtysh). Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. (in Russian). Farzalieva, G. S. (2008). The fauna and chorology of Myriapoda from the Urals and Cisuralia. Thesis of Candidate (Ph.D.) of Biological Sci. Degree. Perm State University, Russia. (in Russian). Kessler, K. F. (1874). On Russian Scolopendridae and Geophilidae. Trudy Russkogo Entomologicheskogo obshchestva, 8, 28-45 (in Russian). Lignau, N. G. (1929). Zur Kenntnis der zentralasiatischen Myriopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 85(5-8), 159-175. Nefediev, P. S., Tuf, I. H., & Farzalieva, G. S. (2017). Centipedes from urban areas in southwestern Siberia, Russia (Chilopoda). Part 2. Geophilomorpha. Arthropoda Selecta, 26(1), 8-14. Sergeeva, E. V. (2013). Biotopic distribution and the numbers of centipedes (Chilopoda) in the Irtysh Valley of western Siberia, Russia. Euroasian Entomological Journal, 12(6), 529-533 (in Russian, with English summary). Sseliwanoff, A. W. (1884). Materials towards the study of Russian myriapods. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae, 18, 69-121. Simiakis, S. M., Zapparoli, M., Minelli, A., & Bonato, L. (2013). The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species. Zootaxa, 3647(2), 279-306. Ulykpan, K. (1988). Species composition and distribution of Myriapoda of Mongolia. Memoir of the National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbataar, 99(3), 217-223 (in Mongolian). Verhoeff, K. W. (1930). Über Myriapoden aus Turkestan. Zoologiseher Anzeiger, 91(9/12), 223-226. Volkova, Yu. S. (2016). An annotated catalogue of geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) from the European part of Russia. Zoological Journal, 95(6), 669-678 (in Russian, with English summary). Vsevolodova-Perel, T. S. (2009). Composition of soil populations of clayey semidesert. Ecological and faunistic characterization of soil-dwelling invertebrates. In: Tishkov, A. A. (ed.), Animals of argillaceous semi desert of trans-Volga Region (synopsis of faunas and ecological characters). Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. (in Russian) Zalesskaja, N. T., Titova, L. P., Golovach, S. I. (1982). The Myriapod Fauna of Moscow Region. Soil-Dwelling Invertebrates of Moscow Province. Leningrad: Nauka publ. (in Russian). Zapparoli, M. (2002). A catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragmenta entomologica, 34(1), 1-146. Zuev, R. V., & Evsyukov, A. P. (2016). Centipedes (Chilopoda) from the Rostov-on-Don Region, southern Russia. Russian Entomological journal, 25(4), 417-426. Wang, D., & Mauriès, J. P. (1996). Review and perspective of study on myriapodology of China. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 169, 81-99.

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