Scutigera coleoptrata (Linné, 1758), Linne, 1758

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 : 305-306

1. Scutigera coleoptrata (Linné, 1758)

(1) Scutigera coleoptrata (L.): Karsch, 1888: 220.

(2) Scutigera coleoptrata (L.): Kanellis, 1959: 32.

(3) Scutigera coleoptrata (Linné, 1758) : Zapparoli, 2002: 8, Fig. 1 .

General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France (incl. Corsica), FYR Macedonia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece (incl. Crete), Hungary, Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal (incl. Azores and Madeira), Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is. and Canary Is.), Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine. West Asia: Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey. North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia ( Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. Mediterranean (MED).

Records in Peloponnisos ( Fig. 3 ). Ahaia: Patra (1, 2, 3). Argolida: Tirintha (1, 2, 3). Ilia: Pirgos (2, 3).

New records from Mt. Parnonas ( Fig. 3 ). 1 ex., Arkadia, Arkadia, Agios Andreas to Agios Panteleimon, crossroad to Moni Eortakoustis (loc. 29), 190 m, N37.323139 / E22.714269, 31 Oct. 2014.

New records from Peloponnisos ( Fig. 3 ). 1 ♂, Ilia, Neohori, N37.51792 / E21.61389, 40 m, 20 Apr. 2003, P. Cerretti.

Ecological notes. 0–1100 m; a thermophilous species, mainly in open Mediterranean habitats, in woodlands with Abies cephalonica , in agroecosystems, and in anthropogenic environments ( Zapparoli 1996, 2002; Simaiakis et al. 2005).

Figures

FIGURE 1. All sampling sites in Peloponnisos (black stars) where centipedes were collected based on literature.

FIGURE 3. Scutigera coleoptrata (black circles), Eupolybothrus litoralis (green circles), E. transsylvanicus (blue circles) and E. werneri (red arrows), distribution records in Peloponnisos.