The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Author
Zapparoli, Marzio
Author
Minelli, Alessandro
Author
Bonato, Lucio
text
Zootaxa
2013
3647
2
279
306
journal article
43580
10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.3
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1175-5326
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Schendyla
cf.
nemorensis
(C.L. Koch, 1837)
Material examined:
23 3, 43 ƤƤ, 1 unsexed.
Sites:
49, 50, 55, 56, 57, 70, 87, 90, 104, 110, 119, 121, 122, 123, 124, 142, 144, 147, 148, 153, 173 (
Fig. 21
).
Habitats.
Pinus
forests, patches with
Quercus
, fields with
Ceratonia
, phryganic formations, cultivations with vineyard, mixed forests with
Pinus
,
Quercus
and
Acer
, ravines with
Platanus
,
Juniperus
and
Quercus
.
Altitudinal range:
370–1920 m
.
Range of leg pairs recorded in
Cyprus
.
35–41 (3) and 35–43 (ƤƤ).
Remarks.
S. nemorensis
is an European species whose range includes
Austria
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Bulgaria
,
Croatia
,
Czech Republic
,
Finland
,
France
,
Germany
,
Greece
(Cyclades,
Dodecanese
),
Ireland
,
Italy
(mainland, Sardinia, Sicily),
Norway
,
Netherlands
,
Poland
,
Portugal
(Azores Isl.),
Romania
,
Slovakia
,
Slovenia
,
Spain
(Balearic Isl.),
Sweden
,
United Kingdom
; also recorded in North Africa (
Algeria
,
Morocco
,
Tunisia
) and introduced to Newfoundland and North
America
(Eason 1964; Zapparoli 2002; Simaiakis
et al
. 2005).
The specimens here examined are similar to
S. nemorensis
, but some minor, yet invariant differences suggest that they could belong to a different species. It seems different also from the specimen recorded from
Cyprus
under
Schendyla zonalis
Brolemann & Ribaut, 1911
by
Turk
(1952).
According to
Turk
(1952), a male 20.5 mm long with 41 pair of legs, terminal legs with two coxal pores, twentyone teeth on the labrum, and teeth on the mandibles arranged in 3:2:3, has been recorded from Kannoures and identified as
Schendyla zonalis
Brolemann and Ribaut, 1911
, currently a junior synonym of
S. carniolensis
Verhoeff, 1902
whose distribution include
Austria
,
France
(mainland),
Italy
(mainland, Sardinia),
Poland
,
Romania
,
Slovenia
,
Spain
(mainland) and
Ukraine
. The taxonomic identity of this record should be reassessed.