Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835), 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 : 156

Pachymerium ferrugineum (C.L. Koch, 1835)

Material examined. MALTA: 1 ex (32 mm, 49 lp), Buskett , 08 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar; 1 ex (25 mm, 49 lp), ibidem, December 2020, leg. T. Cassar; 1 ex., Misrats Gtsar il-Kbir, 07 February 2021, leg. T. Cassar; 2 exs, Pembroke, 16 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar; 2 exs, ibidem, 14 February 2021, leg. T. Cassar; COMINO: 1 ex, Blue Lagoon (23 mm, 57 lp), 23 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar .

Distribution. Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (mainland), European Russia, Finland, France (mainland, Corsica), Great Britain, Greece (mainland, insular including Crete), Hungary, Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Latvia, Malta, Republic of Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal (mainland, Azores Isl., Madeira Is.), Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl., Canary Isl.), Sweden, The Netherlands; North Africa: Algeria, Central Sahara, Lybia, Morocco, Tunisia; West Asia: Caucasus, Iran, Palestine, Turkey, Uzbekistan; Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Mongolia; East Asia: Pribilof Is. ( Russia), Japan (introduced); North America: Alaska, introduced elsewhere; Central America: Mexico (introduced); South America: Chile (Juan Fernández Is., introduced; Easter Is., introduced); Pacific islands: Hawaii Isl. (introduced) ( Zapparoli 2009, Dyachkov & Nedoev 2021).

Chorotype. W-Palearctic.

Notes. Previously recorded by Matic et al. (1968) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta and Gozo, but the above collected material is the first record of this species from Comino. It is an extremely widespread species in the Maltese Islands, occurring in a wide variety of habitats.

HIMANTARIIDAE Bollman, 1893