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Issue: Vol. 5278 No. 1: 4 May 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-05-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.7
Page range: 143-154
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Morphological and ecological revision of Himantariella scutellaris Brolemann, 1926(Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Himantariidae)

Biological Pest Control and Ecosystem Services Laboratory; Instituto Murciano de Investigación y Desarrollo Agrario y Medioambiental
Centre de Recursos de Biodiversitat Animal; Facultat de Biologia; Universitat de Barcelona
Department of Organisms and Systems Biology (Zoology); University of Oviedo
Institució Catalana d’Història Natural
Department of Conservation Biology; Doñana Biological Station—CSIC
Myriapoda Cantabric Region ethology habitat preferences intraspecific variability monticolous Prelitoral Mountain Range Pre-Pyrenees synanthropic

Abstract

Himantariella scutellaris Brolemann, 1926 has previously been considered a French endemic species from the eastern Pyrenees. New collecting data from the Spanish Pre-Pyrenees, the Prelitoral Mountain Range and the Cantabric Region, make it possible to expand its known distribution to the northern Iberian Peninsula. Intraspecific variability, habitat preferences and ethology are assessed for the first time. New figures on the morphology of H. scutellaris and identification keys for the European Himantariidae with terminal pore-fields are provided. Results showed a wider range of morphological variability than previously reported and allowed to update the diagnostic characters needed for identification. Additionally, results showed monticolous, synanthropic and nocturnal habits for the Iberian populations and suggest that H. scutellaris is a common species at a local scale. Finally, morphology and ecology of H. scutellaris from the Iberian Peninsula and the Pyrenees are discussed in depth.

 

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