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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Bothriogaster signata
(Kessler, 1874)
Bothriogaster affinis
(gen.) Szel. et mihi: Verhoeff 1901: 410 (synonymy).
Bothriogaster signata cyprica
Chalande & Ribaut, 1909: 269
, Fig. 49 (synonymy).
Bothriogaster aegyptiaca
Attems
, subsp.
cyprica
Chalande & Ribaut, 1909:
Turk
1952: 657 (synonymy).
Material examined:
18 3, 12 ƤƤ.
Sites:
1, 10, 18, 22 (published), 27, 47, 54, 55, 56, 77 (published), 85, 86 (published), 91, 100, 110, 116, 139, 149, 150, 174, 175, 179, 185 (
Fig. 20
).
General distribution.
Europe:
Albania
,
Bulgaria
,
Greece
(mainland, Crete, Cyclades,
Dodecanese
), FYR
Macedonia
; North Africa:
Egypt
,
Libya
(Cyrenaica, Tripolitania),
Tunisia
; West Asia: Caucasus,
Cyprus
,
Iran
,
Iraq
,
Israel
,
Jordan
,
Palestine
,
Saudi Arabia
,
Syria
,
Turkey
; Central Asia: Turkestan,
Uzbekistan
(Zapparoli 1991; Simaiakis
et al
. 2005).
Chorotype.
Turanic-Mediterranean.
Habitats.
Maquis with
Pinus
,
Juniperus
,
Acacia
and
Cupressus
, phrygana with
Sarcopoterium spinosum
, patches with
Pinus
and
Acacia
, fields with
Ceratonia
, cultivations with vineyard, patches with
Eucalyptus
,
Pinus
forests, mixed forests with
Pinus
and
Quercus
.
Altitudinal range:
5–1150 m
.
Range of leg pairs recorded in
Cyprus
.
89–103 (3) and 93–107 (ƤƤ).
Remarks.
Generically quoted from
Cyprus
by Verhoeff (1901) under
B. affinis
. Afterwards cited by Chalande & Ribaut (1909) who, on a single female generically quoted from „
Chypre
“, described a new subspecies,
B. a. cyprica
, without any taxonomic significance (cf. Attems 1929: 49). Also recorded from “Apos, Andreas”, misprinted for "Apos. [= Apostolos] Andreas", under
B. aegyptiaca cyprica
by
Turk
(1952).