102 urn:lsid:arphahub.com:pub:73abe0ce-d97c-5d7c-bee5-b8e6e6fe6a17 ARPHA Preprints preprints Pensoft Publishers 10.3897/arphapreprints.e157236 157236 Taxonomy & Inventories Xystodesmidae Taxonomy Neogene Turkey First description of a male Melaphe apamea Hoffman & Lohmander, 1968 from Turkey (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae) Korsós Zoltán zkorsos@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1545-5086 1 2 Golovatch Sergei 3 University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Budapest, Hungary University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest Budapest Hungary Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest Hungary Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia

Corresponding author: Zoltán Korsós (zkorsos@gmail.com).

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2025 29 04 2025 6 47856687-3074-55C9-A77B-D9BD749829AC 28 04 2025 28 04 2025 Zoltán Korsós, Sergei Golovatch This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

The first male of Melaphe apamea Hoffman & Lohmander, 1968 is described and illustrated based on a single specimen collected by a Hungarian expedition to Turkey in 1980.

The specimen is kept in the Myriapoda Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre), Budapest.