Himantarium gabrielis (Linnaeus, 1767), 2004

Cassar, Thomas & Zapparoli, Marzio, 2021, Additions to the centipede (Chilopoda) fauna of the Maltese Islands, with new distributional records and an updated checklist, Soil Organisms 93 (3), pp. 153-160 : 157

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25674/so93iss3id166
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192733
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Himantarium gabrielis (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Himantarium gabrielis (Linnaeus, 1767) View in CoL

Material examined. MALTA: 1 ♀ (80 mm, 135 lp), Qormi, 9 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar ; 1 ♀ (115 mm, 131 lp), Misrats Gtsar il-Kbir, 7 February 2021, leg. T. Cassar .

Distribution. Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France (mainland, Corsica), Greece (mainland, insular excluding Crete), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Malta, Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania (southern), Slovenia, quoted from Portugal by Attems (1929) but not by Machado (1952), also in Central Europe according to Brölemann (1930) and in the Czech Republic (Tuf & Tajovský 2016); North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia; Austral Africa: Madagascar (?), introduced (Lawrence 1960); West Asia: Turkey (western) ( Zapparoli 2009).

Chorotype. Mediterranean.

Notes. Previously recorded by Schembri (1996), Kime (2003) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta. It is a widespread species in the main island of the archipelago, occurring in a wide variety of habitats.