New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods
Author
Bachvarova, Darina
Author
Vagalinski, Boyan
Author
Doichinov, Aleksandar
Author
Stoev, Pavel
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-05-10
4263
3
507
526
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4
e542d309-1af6-465f-816b-3ef3e62a526e
1175-5326
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Lithobius melanops
Newport, 1845
Koren (1992)
: 75, figs 22a–c.
Material
examined
(
NMNHS
):
1 ad.
♀
,
Sofia
,
Poduene
,
N 42.422661
,
E 23.220843
, bathroom of an apartment,
16.VI.2003
, leg.
R. Spasova
, det. PS.
;
1 specimen
,
Sofia
,
National Academy
of
Art
,
N 42.696305
,
E 23.327054
,
20.VI.2003
, leg.
R. Spasova
, det. PS.
;
1 ♂
,
Sofia
N 42.415175
,
E 23.191872
, in a block, near to a potted plant,
19.IV.2003
, leg.
I. Borisov
, det. PS.
; 1 ♂, same place,
18.X.2003
, leg. I. Borisov, det. PS.
Remarks.
This species is new to the Bulgarian fauna, although it was previously recorded in the city greens of
Shumen
, identified as
Lithobius aff. melanops
(
Bachvarova
et al.
2015
)
. However, this is the first definite record of the species in the country.
Lithobius melanops
is widely distributed in Europe including
Austria, Belgium
,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
,
Britain I.
, Canary Is.,
Croatia, Czech Republic
,
Denmark
(mainland and Faroe Is.), Central and North European
Russia, Finland
,
France
(excl.
Corsica
),
Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg
,
Madeira
Is.,
Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia
,
Spain
(mainland, excl. Balearic Is.),
Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands
,
Ukraine
; introduced to Newfoundland (
Enghoff 2013
). The subspecies
borgei
Eason and Ashmole, 1992
is known only from the
Azores
(
Eason & Ashmole 1992
); the
N. African
(
Morocco
) subspecies (
protectus
Brölemann, 1924;
dayae
Manfredi, 1956;
tridentatus
Demange, 1957) have been revised by
Zapparoli (1984a
,
1984b
) who believes that they must be referred to species different from
L. melanops
(
Zapparoli 2006
)
. In
Bulgaria
, the species has been found only in highly urbanized environments—houses (in potted house and garden plants) and city parks.