Published November 13, 2023 | Version v1
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Lithobius forficatus

  • 1. Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, K. Cholokashvilli Ave 3 / 5, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 2. Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc, Slechtitelu 27, CZ- 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

Description

18. Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution in Georgia.

Abkhazia • Akhali Atoni (=Novy Afon) (4) (Zalesskaja 1972). • village Eshera (5) (Lignau 1914; Zalesskaja 1972). • Sokhumi (7) (Muralevitch 1926, 1929). • near Sokhumi (5 km on the way to Akhali Atoni) (Lignau 1914; Zalesskaja 1972) (7). Imereti • Tkibuli (28) (Muralevitch 1926, 1929). • Georgia, without precise locality (Zapparoli 2002).

Global distribution.

Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, North Macedonia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Introduced in North America, South America, St. Elena, Kuriles (Zapparoli 2002), Iran (Zarei et al. 2020).

Notes

Published as part of Kiria, Eleonora, Barjadze, Shalva & Tuf, Ivan Hadrian, 2023, Checklist of Georgian centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda), pp. 177-188 in Caucasiana 2 on page 177, DOI: 10.3897/caucasiana.2.e108535

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lithobiomorpha
Family
Lithobiidae
Genus
Lithobius
Species
forficatus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lithobius forficatus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Kiria, Barjadze & Tuf, 2023

References

  • Zalesskaja, NT, 1972. Biospeologica Sovietica L: Une nouvelle espece cavernicole de Harpolithobius (Chilopoda, Lithobiidae) du Caucase, Harpolithobius birsteini n. sp. International Journal of Speleology 4 (3): 8, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5038/1827-806X.4.3.8
  • Lignau, NG, 1914. Vielfüssler aus Abchasien. News of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Mathematical series 8 (3): 185 - 186
  • Muralevitch, WS, 1926. Uebersicht ueber die Chilopodenfauna des Kaukasus. II. Mitteilung. Zoologischer Anzeiger 69: 27 - 44
  • Muralevitch, WS, 1929. Scutigeridae et Lithobiidae de la faune du Caucase. Memoires dela Section Zoologique de la Societe des Amis des Sciences Naturelles, d'Antropologie et d'Ethnographie Moscou 4: 4 - 120
  • Zapparoli, M, 2002. A catalogue of centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragmenta Entomologica 34: 1 - 146
  • Zarei, R, Rahimian, H, Mirmonsef, H, Bona.to, L, 2020. Geophilomorpha from Alborz Mountains and a checklist of Chilopoda from Iran. Zootaxa, 4780 (1): 132 - 146, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.6