Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846), 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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25674/so93iss3id166
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192703
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scientific name	Dignathodon microcephalus (Lucas, 1846)
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Material examined. MALTA: 1 ♂ (37 mm, 83 lp), Buskett , 17 November 2019, leg. T. Cassar .

Distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France (mainland, Corsica), Greece (mainland, insular including Crete), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Luxembourg (introduced?), Montenegro, Malta, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl.), Ukraine (Crimea); North Africa: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia ( Zapparoli 2009).

Chorotype. Mediterranean.

Notes. Previously recorded by Matic et al. (1968) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta and Gozo. A thermophilous species.