Stenotaenia palaestina (Verhoeff, 1925)

Chipman, Ariel D., Dor, Neta & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, Diversity and biogeography of Israeli geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha), Zootaxa 3652 (2), pp. 232-248 : 238-239

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.

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FIGURE 3. Sampling locations and presumptive distribution sites for members of the Geophilidae and Mecistocephalidae. A) Clinopodes escherichii. B) Geophilus cf. carpophagus. C) Pachymerium ferrugineum. D) Stenotaenia naxia. E) Stenotaenia palaestina. F) Mecistocephalus evansi.