Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)

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 : 329

30. Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)

(1) Dign. microcephalum [sic!] Luc. [sic!]: Verhoeff, 1901: 455.

(2) Dignathodon microcephalum [sic!] Lucas [sic!]: Attems, 1903b: 273.

(3) Dignathodon microcephalum [sic!] (Luc.): Kanellis, 1959: 16.

(4) Dignathodon microcephalum (Lucas, 1846) : Zapparoli, 2002: 82, Fig. 36.

General distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France (incl. Corsica), Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia and Sicily), Luxembourg, Montenegro, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.), Ukraine. West Asia: Jordan, Israel, Syria, Turkey. North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia ( Zapparoli 2002; Minelli et al. 2006).

Chorotype. Mediterranean (MED).

Records in Peloponnisos (2) ( Fig. 11 ). Ahaia: Patra (1, 3, 4).

New records from Mt. Parnonas ( Fig. 11 ). 1 ex., Arkadia, Moni Panagias Malevis (loc. 11), 880 m, N37.328907 / E22.572301, 27 Oct. 2014; 1 ex., Arkadia, Neochori to Agios Charalampos church, phrygana (loc. 30), 50 m, N37.361966 / E22.741903, 31 Oct. 2014.

Ecological notes. Generally 0–900, one record from Mt Parnasus, 2200–2400 m, needs to be confirmed ( Zapparoli 2002); a thermophilous species, generally in phrygana and in open Mediterranean habitats; few records from caves ( Chamberlin 1956; Matic et al. 1968; Zapparoli 1994, 1996).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Dignathodon microcephalum (black circle), Henia athenarum (green circles), H. devia (blue circles), H. illyrica (red arrows), H. bicarinata (blue arrows) and H. pulchella (black arrow), distribution records in Peloponnisos.