The centipedes of Peloponnisos and first records of genus Eurygeophilus in the East Mediterranean (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Author
Akkari, Nesrine
Author
Zapparoli, Marzio
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Zootaxa
2016
2016-01-08
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30.
Dignathodon microcephalus
(Lucas, 1846)
(1)
Dign.
microcephalum
[sic!] Luc. [sic!]:
Verhoeff, 1901
: 455.
(2)
Dignathodon microcephalum
[sic!] Lucas [sic!]:
Attems, 1903b
: 273.
(3)
Dignathodon microcephalum
[sic!] (Luc.):
Kanellis, 1959
: 16.
(4)
Dignathodon microcephalum
(Lucas, 1846)
:
Zapparoli, 2002
: 82, Fig. 36.
General distribution.
Europe:
Albania
,
Austria
,
Bosnia Herzegovina
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Czech Republic
,
France
(incl.
Corsica
),
Greece
(incl. Crete),
Italy
(incl. Sardinia and Sicily),
Luxembourg
,
Montenegro
,
Portugal
,
Romania
,
Serbia
,
Slovakia
,
Spain
(incl. Balearic Is.),
Ukraine
. West Asia:
Jordan
,
Israel
,
Syria
,
Turkey
. North Africa:
Algeria
,
Morocco
,
Tunisia
(
Zapparoli 2002
; Minelli
et al.
2006).
Chorotype.
Mediterranean (MED).
Records in Peloponnisos
(2) (
Fig. 11
). Ahaia: Patra (1, 3, 4).
New records from Mt. Parnonas
(
Fig. 11
). 1 ex., Arkadia, Moni Panagias Malevis (loc. 11),
880 m
,
N37.328907
/
E22.572301
,
27 Oct. 2014
; 1 ex., Arkadia, Neochori to Agios Charalampos church, phrygana (loc. 30),
50 m
,
N37.361966
/
E22.741903
,
31 Oct. 2014
.
Ecological notes.
Generally 0–900, one record from Mt Parnasus,
2200–2400 m
, needs to be confirmed (
Zapparoli 2002
); a thermophilous species, generally in phrygana and in open Mediterranean habitats; few records from caves (
Chamberlin 1956
;
Matic
et al.
1968
;
Zapparoli 1994
,
1996
).