Geophilus insculptus Attems, 1895

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Akkari, Nesrine & Zapparoli, Marzio, 2016, The centipedes of Peloponnisos and first records of genus Eurygeophilus in the East Mediterranean (Myriapoda: Chilopoda), Zootaxa 4061 (4), pp. 301-346 : 339

43. Geophilus insculptus Attems, 1895

General distribution. Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France (incl. Corsica), Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Ionian Is. and Crete), Hungary, Ireland, Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden. North Africa: Morocco, Tunisia ( Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. European (EUR).

New records from Mt. Parnonas ( Fig. 15 ). 1 ex., Arkadia, Stravorachi, west of Kastanitsa (loc. 5), 1485 m, N37.238169 / E22.610705, 26 Oct. 2014; 1 ex., Arkadia, Agios Ioannis Theologos church, mountain refuge (loc. 19), 1610 m, N37.226653 / E22.591896, 29 Oct. 2014; 2 exx., Arkadia, Mavrovouni, mountain plateau west of Sitaina (loc. 25), 1330 m, N37.300473 / E22.615434, 30 Oct. 2014.

Ecological notes. 1950–2100 m; a species found in montane open habitats ( Zapparoli 1994, 2002).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Geophilus insculptus (black circles), G. unguiculatus (red circle), Pachymerium ferrugineum (blue circle), Pleurogeophilus mediterraneus (red arrows), Stenotaenia cf. naxia (black arrow), S. rhodopensis (blue arrows), Strigamia crassipes (green arrow) and S. transsilvanica (green circle), distribution records in Peloponnisos.