The Centipede Fauna (Chilopoda) of Crete and Its Satellite Islands (Greece, Eastern Mediterranean)

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail; Minelli, Alessandro; Mylonas, M.

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“…The peak of activity occurred during early summer for S. cretica and midsummer for S. cingulata. Our results are in accordance with observations of Simaiakis et al (2004) on the late spring-early summer peak of activity of S. cretica. The lack of statistical significance of the Watson-William F-test between the mean vectors for S. cingulata in Naxos and Cyprus and S. cretica (Crete) shows the similarity of the temporal activity patterns of the two species.…”

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“…This is in agreement with Simaiakis et al (2004Simaiakis et al ( , 2005, where both sexes of S. cretica reached peak of activity in spring to early summer (at the beginning of the dry/hot season). The sibling species S. canidens, is also eurythermic-thermophilous-xerophilous as shown by a study in Israel (Negrea 1997).…”

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“…They are both very common in the maquis-phryganic mosaic-like formations in the eastern Mediterranean (Zapparoli 2002;Simaiakis et al 2004Simaiakis et al , 2005. The abundance of both species proved to be annually and spatially non-variant within all study sites, indicating that their populations are uniformly distributed in the maquis formations, independent of sampling design.…”

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“…The former is known from Crete and its satellite islets (Simaiakis & Mylonas 2008) and its taxonomic status has been revised recently (Würmli 1980). Records from Turkey, Cyrenaica and western Libya (Würmli 1980) are most likely referable to the sibling species S. canidens and not to S. cretica (Simaiakis et al 2004;Lewis, 2010). S. cingulata is Mediterranean -west Asiatic species, widely distributed in the Mediterranean Basin, with the exception of the Balearic Islands, Crete, Corsica, and Sardinia (Zapparoli 2002;Zapparoli and Minelli 2005;Simaiakis and Mylonas 2008;Lewis 2010).…”

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Seasonal patterns of activity of Scolopendra cretica and S. cingulata (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) in East Mediterranean maquis ecosystem

Kaltsas¹,

Simaiakis²

2012

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The seasonal activity patterns of Scolopendra cingulata and S. cretica in relation to abiotic factors and microhabitat preferences in five eastern Mediterranean maquis formations were studied. The abundance of both species proved to be spatially non-variant, suggesting a uniform distribution of populations, which exhibited a statistically similar phenological pattern, peaking in early-midsummer. The variability of the temporal activity patterns in Crete, Naxos and Cyprus denotes the influence of insularity and rapid change of environmental conditions to the phenology of both species. The annually consistent seasonal activity represents an invariant pattern in continental areas such as Attiki and Samos. Although young and large adults were more abundant than juveniles, the microhabitat preferences of scolopendrids did not differ between the two species and in relation to age class and study site and did not change temporally. The correlation of abundance with high air temperature and low air relative humidity and precipitation shows that both species are thermophilous and xerophilous, well adapted to the environmental conditions of the eastern Mediterranean region.

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Seasonal patterns of activity of Scolopendra cretica and S. cingulata (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) in East Mediterranean maquis ecosystem

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2012

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“…In the study area, it is present in almost every single island (Fig. 1), but is absent from Crete and its satellite islets (Simaiakis, Minelli & Mylonas, 2004). This is a remarkable gap and it has been documented to occur in other major islands of the Mediterranean as well as the Balearic Islands, Corsica, and Sardinia (Simaiakis & Mylonas, 2008).…”

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The evolutionary history of the Mediterranean centipede Scolopendra cingulata (Latreille, 1829) (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae) across the Aegean archipelago

Simaiakis

Dimopoulou

Mitrakos

et al. 2012

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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In this study we investigate the evolutionary relationships of Scolopendra cingulata (Latreille, 1829) within insular Greece. Our main goal is to infer the time frame of the differentiation of the species in the study area. In this regard, sequence data originating from three mitochondrial genes are used to reconstruct the evolutionary history of 47 insular populations of S. cingulata from the Aegean archipelago. Within the phylogenetic framework and by implementing a relaxed molecular clock methodology, we infer the time estimates of separations of the S. cingulata lineages. The results of the phylogenetic analysis support the presence of three distinct S. cingulata groups in the region. The first group accommodates populations from the eastern Aegean islands, and is closely related to the second group that hosts mainly populations of northern and central Cyclades. The third group is composed of insular populations originating from southern Cyclades. Different temporal splitting scenarios have been evaluated. Based on the scenario strongly supported by the data, we propose a biogeographical scenario that could account for the contemporary distribution of the species' lineages. The splitting events of S. cingulata are estimated to have occurred within the late Miocene. The historical events of the last 13.77 Myr have shaped, through a series of mostly vicariant and dispersal incidents, the present-day biogeographical pattern of the species.

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Past connections with the mainland structure patterns of insular species richness in a continental‐shelf archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)

Hammoud

Kougioumoutzis

Rijsdijk

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Ecology and Evolution

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The Centipede Fauna (Chilopoda) of Crete and Its Satellite Islands (Greece, Eastern Mediterranean)

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Seasonal patterns of activity of Scolopendra cretica and S. cingulata (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) in East Mediterranean maquis ecosystem

Seasonal patterns of activity of Scolopendra cretica and S. cingulata (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) in East Mediterranean maquis ecosystem

The evolutionary history of the Mediterranean centipede Scolopendra cingulata (Latreille, 1829) (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae) across the Aegean archipelago

Past connections with the mainland structure patterns of insular species richness in a continental‐shelf archipelago (Aegean Sea, Greece)

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