Henia (Meinertia) bicarinata (Meinert, 1870), 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 : 155

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scientific name	Henia (Meinertia) bicarinata (Meinert, 1870)
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Henia (Meinertia) bicarinata (Meinert, 1870) View in CoL

Material examined. MALTA: 1 ♂ (30 mm, 65 lp), Misrats Gtsar il-Kbir (limits of Siġġiewi), 2 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar .

Distribution. Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France (mainland, Corsica), Greece (mainland,insular includingCrete), Hungary,IberianPeninsula, Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Macaronesia, Malta; North Africa: Maghreb; West Asia: Turkey, Caucasus (Minelli 1982a) ( Zapparoli 2009).

Chorotype. Mediterranean.

Notes. Previously recorded by Kime (2003) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta and Gozo. It is a widespread species in the Maltese Islands, occurring in a variety of coastal habitats, from banquettes of stranded Posidonia , to garigue and inland valleys.

GEOPHILIDAE Leach, 1815