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Stenotaenia palaestina

Description

Stenotaenia palaestina (Verhoeff, 1925)

Published records: “Chuldah bei Jaffa” [Hulda, near Jaffa] (Verhoeff 1925); “Jerusalem”, “Nes Harim” (Bonato & Minelli 2008).

New records: Arad (1 specimen 1963); Hermon, Emek Bol’an (1 specimen 2012); Kalanit (1 specimen 2011).

Distribution in Israel: the few localities are mainly in mountainous areas, with average annual temperatures between 16–20˚C and annual precipitations between 550–1250 (Figure 3 E). The exception is a specimen from Arad, which is from a mountainous desert region. We did not include this site in the presumptive distribution.

Global distribution: the species is known only from Israel.

Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes. S. palaestina has been recognised provisionally as a distinct species after a revision of the entire genus Stenotaenia (Bonato & Minelli 2008). The specimens examined by us are assigned to this species according to their number of legs.

Notes

Published as part of Chipman, Ariel D., Dor, Neta & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, Diversity and biogeography of Israeli geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha), pp. 232-248 in Zootaxa 3652 (2) on pages 238-239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/219927

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References

  • Verhoeff, K. W. (1925) Mediterrane Chilopoden und Notiz zur Periodomorphose der Juliden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 64, 63-80.
  • Bonato, L. & Minelli, A. (2008) Stenotaenia Koch 1847: a hitherto unrecognized lineage of western Palaearctic centipedes with unusual diversity in body size and segment number (Chilopoda: Geophilidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 153, 253 - 286.