Geophilus, Meinert, 1870

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Zapparoli, Marzio, Minelli, Alessandro & Bonato, Lucio, 2013, The centipede fauna (Chilopoda) of the island of Cyprus, with one new lithobiomorph species, Zootaxa 3647 (2), pp. 279-306 : 296

* Geophilus cf. alpinus Meinert, 1870

Material examined: 1 Ƥ.

Sites: 123 ( Fig. 18 ).

Habitats. Mixed forests with Pinus and Quercus .

Altitudinal range: known only from a site at 1000 m.

Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 43 (Ƥ).

Remarks. G. alpinus is an European species whose distribution includes Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, European Russia, France (mainland, Corsica), Germany, Greece (mainland, Crete), Hungary, Ireland, Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom; also recorded in Morocco and Tunisia (Zapparoli 2002; Simaiakis et al. 2005). The identification of the single specimen is only tentatively, because the taxonomy is still uncertain for the group of closely related species including G. alpinus and other less adequately described very similar species.

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FIGURE 18. Clinopodes escherichii, Geophilus cf. carpophagus and G. cf. alpinus, distribution in Cyprus.