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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25674/so93iss3id166
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13192693
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Eupolybothrus nudicornis (Gervais, 1837)
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Eupolybothrus nudicornis (Gervais, 1837) View in CoL

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.