The Pauropoda and Symphyla of the Geneva Museum IV. A basic list of the Pauropoda of Greece (Myriapoda)
Year: 1977
Type: article
Abstract: The present study is a review of the Pauropoda of Greece, their distribution and taxonomy.It is based upon earlier literature records and a rich collection assembled in the Geneva soil zoology project led by D' Bernd Hauser.Thirty species are listed.They belong to 3 families: Pauropodidae with 7 genera and 25 species, Brachypauropodidae with one genus with one species and Eurypauropodidae with 2 genera and 4 species.Eight species are new to Greece, one of them also new to science.The latter, Hemipauropus hauseri n.sp., is described.It has been placed in a new subgenus, Multipauropus n. subgen., and consequently the genus Hemipauropus is split into two subgenera, Hemipauropus s. str.and Multipauropus n. subgen.The composition and distribution of the Greek Pauropoda indicate that they might belong to several zoogeographical elements with different origin.PAUROPODA OF GREECE 363 furcifer Silvestri, from Thracia, which REMY mentioned in a paper from 1961 (Bull.Soc.Lorraine Sci.1: 87) and in 1959 Coiffait found 37 specimens of several species, including two of Eurypauropodidae, in flotation samples from Corfu and Peloponnesus.This material was also described in 1961 (Annls Spéleol.16: 175-178) and REMY enumerated from it 9 species, 4 of which were new to Greece viz.two from Pauropodidae, A. brevisetus Silvestri and cuenoti (Remy), and two from Eurypauropodidae, Trachypauropus glomerioides Tömösvary and Gravieripus atticus Remy, the latter also new to science.Further REMY announced in the same paper the Pauropodidae genus Hemipauropus for the first time from Greece but his single specimen was defective and indeterminable.Finally after having studied 13 specimens from Euboea collected in 1971 by Claude Delamare Deboutteville and Pierre Arpin and 87 specimens from Corfu, Peloponnesus, Euboea and Eurytania collected in 1967 by Paul Cassagnau the present author added (Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 5: 5-24) 9 more species from 3 families.Most of them belonged to Pauropodidae: A. gravieri Remy, pectinatus (Hansen) s.n.fuscinifer Remy (see p. 382-383), helveticus (Hansen), sodalicus Scheller (also new to science), Rabaudauropus cuspidatus (Remy), Stylopauropus pedunculatus (Lubbock) and Scleropauropus heterochaetus Remy.The families Brachypauropodidae and Eurypauropodidae had each one representant, Brachypauropus hamiger Latzel and Trachypauropus eosus Scheller respectively, the latter also new to science. MATERIALAdding up the material from the collections mentioned above gives 23 species from 3 families.However, this is far from the definitive number which has also been shown by the Geneva soil zoology project led by D' Bernd Hauser, curator of the Arthropoda section of the museum, which group has collected an extensive material from various parts of Greece.The bulk of it has been brought together by D™ Hauser himself but valuable contributions have also been made by Claude Besuchet, Ivan Löbl, Volker Mahnert and Pierre Strinati.Their material from 1971-1975 is accounted for below, in all 492 specimens which is almost 3 times as much as all earlier collections together.It was obtained by means of Berlese and Winkler funnel extractions from a large number of localities and biotopes.Twenty species were found of which 8 are new to Greece: A. humilis, ?verecundus, corsicus, multiplex, P. huxleyi, H. hauseri, S. lyrifer and G. cordatus.One of them is also new to science, Hemipauropus (Multipauropus) hauseri n. subgen.n. sp., which belongs to a new group within the genus with a tergal chaetotaxy strongly deviating from that in other species of the genus.3. SYSTEMATICS OF GREEK PAUROPODA Key to families 1.First and last tergites covering at least head and anterior part of pygidium nes pectivelywbOdy flattened SERRE . . . . . . . . .Zurypauropodidae -First and last tergites small leaving head A pygidium free; body subcylindrical 2 2. 6 undivided dorsal tergites . . . .M UTC Lo cl Rauropodidae -6 divided tergites or 9-10 tergites decal divided . . . .
Source: Revue suisse de zoologie
Author: Ulf Scheller
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2290366849