Stenotaenia cf. naxia ( Verhoeff, 1901 )

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 : 341

47. Stenotaenia cf. naxia ( Verhoeff, 1901)

New records from Peloponnisos ( Fig. 15 ). 1 ♀, Messinia, Kalamata, 380 m, N37.07221 / E22.15783, 21 Apr. 2003, P. Cerretti.

Remarks. Stenotaenia naxia is an Eastern Mediterranean species whose reliable records came from the Cyclades Islands (Is. Syros, Is. Naxos), Dodecanese (Is. Halki, Rhodes), Crete, and Palestine; its presence in Anatolia should be confirmed (Bonato & Minelli 2008).

The specimen examined here is tentatively assigned to Stenotaenia naxia as it shows the following main features: large body size (length 67 mm); 99 leg bearing segments; labrum with apparently four tubercles; lappets on both the coxosternum and the telopodites of first maxillae not seen; chitin lines of the forcipular coxosternum reaching the anterior condyles; anterior margin of the forcipular coxosternum wide and almost straight; forcipular intermediate articles distinctly separate; sternal pore areas in the anterior part of the trunk oval, slightly longer than wide, and placed on the posterior half of each sternum; each coxopleuron with one pouch with pores and a small anterior pore.

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.