Scolopendra oraniensis Lucas, 1846

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 : 155

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scientific name	Scolopendra oraniensis Lucas, 1846
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Scolopendra oraniensis Lucas, 1846 View in CoL

Material examined. MALTA: 1 ex., Dingli, 2 February 2020, leg. T. Cassar .

Distribution Europe: France ( Corsica), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Malta, Portugal (mainland), Spain (mainland, Balearic Isl.); North Africa: Algeria, Morocco ( Zapparoli 2009).

Chorotype. W-Mediterranean.

Notes. Previously recorded by Matic et al. (1968), Foddai et al. (1996), Kime (2003) (under S. c. oraniensis ) and Zapparoli et al. (2004) from Malta and Gozo. It is an extremely widespread species in the Maltese Islands, occurring in a wide variety of habitats, though mostly found in garigue and valleys.

GEOPHILOMORPHA Pocock, 1895 DIGNATHODONTIDAE Cook, 1895