Stenotaenia sp. cf. sorrentina (Attems, 1903)

Zapparoli, Marzio & Iorio, Etienne, 2012, The centipedes (Chilopoda) of Corsica: catalogue of species with faunistic, zoogeographical and ecological remarks, International Journal of Myriapodology 7, pp. 15-68 : 36-37

32. Stenotaenia sp. cf. sorrentina (Attems, 1903)

Geophilus linearis C.K.: Léger and Duboscq 1903: 313. (1)

Geophilus linearis Koch: Verhoeff 1925a: 655. (2)

Clinopodes linearis (C.L. Koch): Attems 1929: 205. (3)

Clinopodes linearis C. Koch [sic]: Attems 1949: 109. (4)

Clinopodes linearis (C.L. Koch, 1835): Minelli 1978: 158. (5)

Geophilus linaris C.L. Koch, 1835: Foddai et al. 1996: 361, Tab. I. (6)

Stenotaenia cf. sorrentina(Attems, 1903): Bonato and Minelli 2008: 286. (7)

Stenotaenia linearis (C. L. Koch, 1835): Geoffroy and Iorio 2009: 687. (8)

Literature records.

General. Sardinia-Corsica (5). Corsica (2, 3, 4, 6, 8). Epigeic. Corse-du-Sud, 2A - Ruisseau de Lonca (7) [I]. Haute-Corse, 2B - Bastia (1) [I]. Cap Corse (1) [I]. Corte (1) [I].

Material examined.

Epigeic. Corse-du-Sud, 2A - Porto, between Col de la Croix and Plage de Tuara, low maquis, 200-250 m: 14.IV.2004, MZ, 1 ♀ 25 mm long 71 lp MZ det. (CMZ) [I]. Haute-Corse, 2B - Cap Corse, Col St. Lucia, Tour de Seneca, Quercus ilex wood, 450 m: 11.IV.2004, MZ, 1 ♂ 15 mm long 63 lp, 1 ♀19 mm long 67 lp MZ det. (CMZ) [I].

General distribution.

Stenotaenia sorrentina is distributed in Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), France (Corsica?); records from other regions (mainly in the Balkans) need to be reassessed ( Bonato and Minelli 2008).

Ecological notes.

200-450 m; recorded only from localities in the Mesomediterranean belt, in Quercus ilex wood (1 site) and maquis (1 site).

Remarks.

Léger and Duboscq (1903) assigned to Geophilus linearis a number of males and females with 63 and 65-69 pair of legs respectively from Bastia, Cap Corse and Corte and Bonato and Minelli (2008) assigned to Stenotaenia sp. cf. sorrentina two males with 69 legs from Ronca. All these records probably belong to this taxon.