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
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Thracophilus cilicius
Attems, 1947
Material examined:
3 3, 5 ƤƤ.
Sites:
110, 124, 125, 141, 179 (
Fig. 20
).
General distribution.
West Asia:
Cyprus
,
Turkey
(Western-Taurus) (Attems 1947).
Chorotype.
East Mediterranean.
Habitats.
Pinus
forests, mixed forests with
Pinus
and
Quercus
, ravines with
Platanus
,
Quercus
and
Juniperus
.
Altitudinal range:
300–1340 m
.
Range of leg pairs recorded in
Cyprus
.
69 (3) and 75–77 (ƤƤ).
Remarks.
Thracophilus
includes some nominal species hitherto known from scattered localities of
Herzegovina
,
Bulgaria
(Rodópi Mts.),
Greece
(Híos Is.),
Turkey
(Cilicia) and
Palestine
(Matic & Darabantu 1974; Stavropoulos & Matic 1990). These species have been mainly described on single specimens and, according to the Matic & Darabantu’s (1974) key, are distinguished on morphological characters whose variability is still poorly known, such as the number of the denticles on the labrum, the number of the teeth on the mandibular lamellae, the number of such lamellae, and the number of leg-bearing segments.