Henia brevis
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Ordo: Geophilomorpha
Familia: Dignathodontidae
Genus: Henia
Name
Henia brevis (Silvestri, 1896) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Literature records
None.
Material examined
Epigeic. Corse-du-Sud, 2A - Ajaccio, Vico, N Sagone, uhb. Col de Sorro, Quercus, Castanea, approx 600 m, (code 74-21): 5.X.1974, KT, 1 ♂ 18 mm long 51 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. Haute-Corse, 2B - Corte, Col de Vizzavona, approx 1100 m, (code 74-17): 30.X.1974, KT, 1 ♂ 15 mm long 51 lp MZ det. (CMZ) [III].
General distribution
Europe: France (mainland, Corsica), British Is., Germany (south-west), Italy (mainland, Pantelleria Is., Sardinia), Moldova (Eason 1964[1], Minelli 1982[2], Spelda 1991[3], Minelli 2006[4], Barber 2008[5]).
Chorotype
S-European.
Ecological notes
600–1100 m; recorded from two localities in the Mesomediterranean and Montane belts, one record from Quercus and Castanea mixed wood.
Remarks
No previous records are known from Corsica. The specimen from Vico lacks an apical claw on the last leg and is only tentatively assigned to this species. Subgeneric assignment according to Minelli (1982)[2].
Taxon Treatment
- Zapparoli, M; Iorio, E; 2012: The centipedes (Chilopoda) of Corsica: catalogue of species with faunistic, zoogeographical and ecological remarks International Journal of Myriapodology, 7: 15-68. doi
Other References
- ↑ Eason E (1964) Centipedes of the British Isles. Warne & Co., London, X + 294 pp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Minelli A (1982) Contributo alla revisione dei Chilopodi Geofilomorfi finora riferiti ai generi Henia e Chaetechelyne (Chilopoda Geophilomorpha). Memorie della Società entomologica italiana 60 [1981]: 253–268.
- ↑ Spelda J (1991) Zur Faunistik und Systematik der Tausendfüßler (Myriapoda) Südwestdeutschlands. Jahreshefte der Gesellschaft für Naturkunde in Württemberg 146: 211-232.
- ↑ Minelli A (2006) A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). http: //chilobase.bio.unipd.it/docs/chilobase.php [accessed May 2011]
- ↑ Barber A (2008) Key to the identification of British centipedes. Field Studies Council Publications, Shrewsbury, UK, 96 pp.