The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Author
Zapparoli, Marzio
Author
Minelli, Alessandro
Author
Bonato, Lucio
text
Zootaxa
2013
3647
2
279
306
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3
af04e66e-ba7a-4693-a29d-e22d476e9897
1175-5326
220527
261ED5D1-C200-413D-B189-B4E0C41744DB
*
Schizotaenia
sp.
Material examined:
1 Ƥ.
Sites:
161 (
Fig. 19
).
Habitats.
Phryganic formations with
Sarcopoterium spinosum
.
Altitudinal range:
known only from a site at
600 m
.
Range of leg pairs recorded in
Cyprus
.
65 (Ƥ).
FIGURE 19.
Pachymerium ferrugineum
,
Schizotaenia
sp. and
Stenotaenia naxia
, distribution in Cyprus.
Remarks.
The genus
Schizotaenia
includes half a dozen species and was previously known only from Tropical Africa (Minelli
et al.
2006; Bonato 2011). This is the first record from the W-Palearctic region, although the record ofthe nominal species
Porethus pauciporus
Chamberlin, 1952
from
Cyprus
in Fauna Europaea (Enghoff, 2004) could actually refer to
Schizotaenia
. The species identity of the material examined is uncertain, needing evaluation with respect to other species known in the genus. Specimens probably conspecific with the female from
Cyprus
have been collected in South-East
Anatolia
(near Iskenderun; M. Zapparoli, unpublished).