Geophilus alpinus Meinert 1870
Description
* Geophilus cf. alpinus Meinert, 1870
Material examined: 1 Ƥ.
Sites: 123 (Fig. 18).
Habitats. Mixed forests with Pinus and Quercus.
Altitudinal range: known only from a site at 1000 m.
Range of leg pairs recorded in Cyprus. 43 (Ƥ).
Remarks. G. alpinus is an European species whose distribution includes Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, European Russia, France (mainland, Corsica), Germany, Greece (mainland, Crete), Hungary, Ireland, Italy (mainland, Sardinia, Sicily), Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom; also recorded in Morocco and Tunisia (Zapparoli 2002; Simaiakis et al. 2005). The identification of the single specimen is only tentatively, because the taxonomy is still uncertain for the group of closely related species including G. alpinus and other less adequately described very similar species.
Notes
Files
Files
(1.3 kB)
Name | Size | Download all |
---|---|---|
md5:53b5bcfca6765edf6fdf2634f3d6d9b2
|
1.3 kB | Download |
System files
(8.8 kB)
Name | Size | Download all |
---|---|---|
md5:509344ec53371cacfa4244a281267f38
|
8.8 kB | Download |
Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Geophilidae
- Genus
- Geophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Geophilomorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Meinert
- Species
- alpinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Geophilus alpinus Meinert, 1870 sec. Simaiakis, Zapparoli, Minelli & Bonato, 2013