Eupolybothrus nudicornis (Gervais, 1837)

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 : 154

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192693
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scientific name	Eupolybothrus nudicornis (Gervais, 1837)
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Material examined. MALTA: 1♂, 2 immatures, Dingli, 2 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar ; 1♂, Buskett , 27 February 2021, leg. T. Cassar ; 1 ♀, Mellietsa, 15 February , 2020, leg. T. Cassar. COMINO : 1♀, central part of the island (36°00’45.6”N 14°20’07.0”E), 23 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Europe: Spain, France (mainland, Corsica), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Malta. North Africa: Algeria (north), Morocco (north–east), Tunisia (north) ( Stoev et al. 2010).

Chorotype. W-Mediterranean.

Notes. Previously recorded by Matic et al. (1968), Foddai et al. (1996), Kime (2003) (under E. impressus C.L. Koch, 1841 ) 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.

References

Foddai, D., A. Minelli & M. Zapparoli (1996): I chilopodi delle isole circumsarde nel contesto del popolamento insulare dell' area tirrenica s. l. - Biogeographia. The Journal of Integrative Biogeography, 18: 357 - 376 [http: // doi. org / 10.21426 / b 618110444].

Kime, R. D. (2003): Some unpublished records of centipedes identified by Dr. E. H. Eason. - Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 19: 45 - 50.

Matic, Z., C. Darabantu & M. Clichici (1968): Contributo alla conoscenza dei Chilopodi di Spagna e di Malta. - Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali in Catania 9: 175 - 195.

Stoev, P., N. Akkari, M. Zapparoli, D. Porco, H. Enghoff, G. D. Edgecombe, T. Georgiev & L. Penev (2010): The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. - ZooKeys 50: 29 - 77 [http: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 50.504].

Zapparoli, M., A. Minelli & P. J. Schembri (2004): The centipedes of the Maltese Archipelago (Chilopoda). - Revue Suisse de Zoologie 111 (2): 433 - 456 [http: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 80247].