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Lithobius (Sigibius) microps Meinert 1868

Description

16. Lithobius (Sigibius) microps Meinert, 1868

(1) Lithobius (Sigibius) microps Meinert, 1876 [sic!]: Zapparoli, 1994: 60.

(2) Lithobius (Sigibius) microps Meinert, 1868: Zapparoli, 2002: 44, Fig. 23.

General distribution. Europe: Albania, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, FYR Macedonia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. West Asia: Turkey (Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. European (EUR).

Records in Peloponnisos (Fig. 6). Ahaia: Klitoria, Zarouhla (2). Lakonia: Taigetos, 1650–1700 m (1, 2).

New records from Mt. Parnonas (Fig. 6). 1 ex., Arkadia, Meligarias south of Oreini Meligou (loc. 9), 810 m, N37.350434 / E22.671654, 27 Oct. 2014; 1 ex., Arkadia, Parnonas mountain refuge to Agios Vasileios, 5.5 km SW of the refuge (loc. 38), 1460 m, N37.217905 / E22.652083, 1 May 2015.

Ecological notes. 0–1700 m; an euriecious species, recorded from Quercus coccifera and Juniperus sp. open scrubs, in Abies cephalonica and Fagus sylvatica woods, in Abies cephalonica and Pinus nigra woods, and in coastal habitats (Zapparoli 1994, 1996).

Notes

Published as part of Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Akkari, Nesrine & Zapparoli, Marzio, 2016, The centipedes of Peloponnisos and first records of genus Eurygeophilus in the East Mediterranean (Myriapoda: Chilopoda), pp. 301-346 in Zootaxa 4061 (4) on page 318, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/264204

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References

  • Zapparoli, M. (1994) Note tassonomiche e faunistiche su Chilopodi della Grecia (Chilopoda). Fragmenta Entomologica, 26, 11 - 66.
  • Zapparoli, M. (2002) Catalogue of the centipedes from Greece (Chilopoda). Fragmenta Entomologica, 34, 1 - 146.
  • Zapparoli, M. (1996) Distribution patterns and qualitative composition of the centipede fauna in forestal habitats of mainland Greece. In: Geoffroy, J. - J., Mauries, J. - P. & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, M. (Eds.), Acta Myriapodologica. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 169, pp. 599 - 605.