Melaphe cypria ( Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869 )

Vagalinski, Boyan, Golovatch, Sergei, Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Enghoff, Henrik & Stoev, Pavel, 2014, Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda), Zootaxa 3835 (4), pp. 528-548 : 542

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.5

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6142970

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scientific name

Melaphe cypria ( Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869 )
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18. Melaphe cypria ( Humbert & DeSaussure, 1869) View in CoL

Records from Cyprus. Limassol ( Verhoeff, 1902).—Prov. Paphos, Cedar Valley, road to Stavros, 11 km from Kikko ( Strasser, 1967).—Trooditissa Monastery ( Turk, 1952).

New material. NHMG: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, ENE of Kato Platres, a narrow ravine with a brook and bushy vegetation of Platanus orientalis , brambles, Eupteris etc., very rich litter, 900 m a.s.l., loc. 91, 30.IV.1981, HWW leg., HE det.— 1 ♂, 4 ♀, Trippylos, 1.8 km SE p. 4619, brook in ravine facing to S, swampy bottom with grass, Equisetum , Eupteris , brambles, Platanus orientalis etc., on a side slope facing to ESE, screes with Quercus alnifolia , pines, bushes, 1060 m a.s.l., loc. 114, 7.V.1981, HWW leg., HE det.— 1 ♂, 2 ♀, Kykko, creeping on the road above the monastery, early in the morning, loc. 112, 7.V.1981, HWW leg., HE det.

Distribution. Endemic to Cyprus.

Humbert, A. & DeSaussure, H. L. F. (1869) Description de divers Myriapodes du Musee de Vienne. Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 19, 669 - 692.

Strasser, K. (1967) Uber Diplopoden Griechenlands, einiger Agais-Inseln und Zyperns. Senckenbergiana biologica, 48 (4), 269 - 293.

Turk, F. A. (1952) Chilopods and diplopods from the island of Cyprus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 12, 5 (55), 656 - 659.

Verhoeff, K. (1902) Uber Diplopoden. 1. Aufsatz: Formen aus Tirol, Italien und Cypern. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte, 68 (1), 175 - 198.

NHMG

Natural History Museum of Guangxi

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Xystodesmidae

Genus

Melaphe