Russian Entomol. J. 30(2): 123–128 © RUSSIAN ENTOMOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 2021 A new species of bristletails of the genus Charimachilis (Microcoryphia: Machilidae) from Crimea Íîâûé âèä ùåòèíîõâîñòîê ðîäà Charimachilis (Microcoryphia: Machilidae) èç Êðûìà Vladimir G. Kaplin Âëàäèìèð Ã. Êàïëèí All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, St Petersburg, Pushkin 196608 Russia. E-mail:
[email protected] Всероссийский НИИ защиты растений, Санкт-Петербург, Пушкин 196608, Россия KEY WORDS: Southwestern Palaearctic, Staryi Krym, Machilinae, Charimachilis, taxonomy. КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: Юго-Западная Палеарктика, Старый Крым, Machilinae, Charimachilis, таксономия. ABSTRACT. Charimachilis taurica sp.n. from the Introduction vicinity of the city Staryi Krym is described and illus- trated. It is compared with parthenogenetic congeners The genus Charimachilis Wygodzinsky, 1939 com- from the Kiev region of Ukraine (C. ukrainensis Stach, prises 14 described species that are distributed in the 1958), as well as from Rostov (C. rostoviensis Kaplin, mountainous landscapes within the subtropical and tem- 2020) and Belgorod (C. morozovi Kaplin, 2019) re- perate belts of the Southwestern Palaearctic: between 31° gions of the Russian Federation. C. taurica sp.n. can be to 50°N (from Israel in the south to the Belgorod region distinguished from all these species by a larger distance of Russia in the north) and between 11° and 41°E (from between paired ocelli and the shape of apical palpomere Austria in the west to Abkhazia in the east) [Kaplin, of labial palp. It also differs from C. ukrainensis and C. 2019]. The position of this genus in the superfamily rostoviensis in the structure of compound eyes and Machiliodea is not clear, primarly because of the specific urocoxites VIII and IX; and from C.