Additions to the centipede (Chilopoda) fauna of the Maltese Islands, with new distributional records and an updated checklist Author Cassar, Thomas Author Zapparoli, Marzio Department of Innovation of Biological, Agro-Food and Forest Systems DIBAF, TUscia University, text Soil Organisms 2021 2021-12-01 93 3 153 160 http://dx.doi.org/10.25674/so93iss3id166 journal article 10.25674/so93iss3id166 2509-9523 Himantarium gabrielis (Linnaeus, 1767) Material examined. MALTA : 1 ♀ ( 80 mm , 135 lp), Qormi , 9 February 2020 , leg. T . Cassar ; 1 ♀ ( 115 mm , 131 lp), Misrats Gtsar il-Kbir, 7 February 2021 , leg. T . Cassar . Distribution . Europe: Albania , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , France (mainland, Corsica ), Greece (mainland, insular excluding Crete ), Italy (mainland, Sicily , Sardinia ), Malta , Republic of Macedonia , Montenegro , Romania (southern), Slovenia , quoted from Portugal by Attems (1929) but not by Machado (1952) , also in Central Europe according to Brölemann (1930) and in the Czech Republic (Tuf & Tajovský 2016); North Africa: Algeria , Morocco , Tunisia ; Austral Africa: Madagascar (?), introduced (Lawrence 1960); West Asia: Turkey (western) ( Zapparoli 2009 ). Chorotype . Mediterranean. Notes . Previously recorded by Schembri (1996) , Kime (2003) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta . It is a widespread species in the main island of the archipelago, occurring in a wide variety of habitats.