Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

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 : 339-341

45. Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

(1) Geophilus ferrugineum C.L. Koch : Karsch, 1888: 220.

(2) Pachymerium atticum Verh. : Kanellis, 1959: 17.

(3) Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch) : Matic & Stavropoulos, 1988: 34.

(4) Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835) : Zapparoli, 2002: 94, Fig. 42.

General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Finland, France (incl. Corsica), FYR Macedonia, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal (incl. Azores and Madeira), Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is. and Canary Is.). West Asia: Caucasus, Iran, Palestine, Turkestan, Turkey. North Africa: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia ( Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. W-Palearctic (WPA).

Records in Peloponnisos ( Fig. 15 ). Argolida: Nafplio (1, 2, 4). Lakonia: Taigetos: Profitis Ilias, 1650–2300 m (3, 4).

Ecological notes. 0–2300 m; an euriecious species, in Platanus orientalis riparian woods, in Quercus sp., Castanea sativa and Populus sp. thermomesophilous woods, in montane open habitats, in Quercus coccifera and Juniperus sp. scrubs, in Paliurus spinachristi scrubs, in sandy soils, along seashore, under stranded remains of Posidonia sp., in saltworks, and in agroecosystems ( Attems 1929a; Kanellis 1959; Matic 1980; Chamberlin 1956; Zapparoli 1994, 1996).

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.