Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda)
Author
Vagalinski, Boyan
Author
Golovatch, Sergei
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
Author
Stoev, Pavel
text
Zootaxa
2014
3835
4
528
548
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.5
ecd1a483-f099-4601-bab3-e9fbc7f4da98
1175-5326
224555
A1ED2E11-7725-4CD7-98DD-477C8C10C938
9.
Catamicrophyllum caifanum
Verhoeff, 1900
Records from
Cyprus
.
Cyprus
[unspecified locality] (
Enghoff, 1995
).
Distribution.
Israel
(
Verhoeff, 1923
;
Enghoff, 1995
),
Lebanon
, south-central
Turkey
, eastern
Iran
,
Cyprus
(
Enghoff, 1995
).
The species is known from
Cyprus
only from one sample collected in 1862 (
Enghoff, 1995
). Its absence from the quite abundant newly studied material supports the assumption of
Golovatch
et al
. (2004)
that the species was most likely introduced to
Cyprus
from the Near East, and might not have established a permanent population on the island.