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The French centipede fauna (Chilopoda): updated checklist and distribution in mainland France, Corsica and Monaco Jean-Jacques Geoffroy1* &

Etienne Iorio2

1 MNHN, Département Ecologie &

Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR

7179 du CNRS,

4 avenue du Petit Ch?teau,

91800 Brunoy, France;

e-mail: geoffroy@mnhn.

fr

2 Attaché au Muséum National d'

Histoire Naturelle (MNHN, Département Systématique &

Evolution). Résidence '

le Blue Line'

b?t. C,

67 Avenue Estienne d'

Orves,

06000 Nice, France;

e-mail: myriapodologie@wanadoo.fr *Corresponding author Abstract A revised and updated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of metropolitan France is given.

145 taxa are recorded from the country (1 Scutigeromorpha,

69 Lithobiomorpha,

9 Scolopendromorpha,

66 Geophilomorpha) although the validity and/or the presence of

8 of these taxa in France remains doubtful. Presence in mainland France, Corsica and Monaco is reported, and the distribution of each taxon in France is briefly quoted as well as special features such as endemism, highly halophilous/halobiontic species and highly troglophilous/troglobitic taxa. Some species potentially present in the studied area are also mentioned, being very likely to be found in the very near future. Keywords: biodiversity, Chilopoda, France, inventory, taxonomy 1. Introduction For the class Chilopoda in France during the last decade 1998C2008, several new taxa have been described or discovered for the first time in the country (Tab. 1) and many synonymies and nomenclatural aspects have been revised (Spelda 2005a, Bonato et al. 2006, 2008, Iorio &

Geoffroy 2007c, 2008, Iorio 2008b, 2008c, Minelli &

Bonato 2008) in respect to works published in the early 1980'

s (Demange 1981, Eason 1982). Also our knowledge of the geographical distribution of the species currently known to occur in France has increased considerably (Iorio 2003, 2004a, 2004b, 2005a, 2005b, 2006, 2007, 2008b, 2008c, Iorio &

Geoffroy 2004, 2007b, 2008, Spelda 2005b, Geoffroy 2006, Iorio &

Berg 2007, Iorio &

Tiberghien 2007, Lindner 2007). For all these reasons, it is useful to review the current state of knowledge of this class of myriapods for the country with the aim of revising and to making more complete the earlier list given at the very end of the Twentieth Century (Geoffroy 2000) and to include elements of comparison with old centipede faunas published for France during the 1930'

s and 1980'

s (Brolemann 1930, Demange 1981). SOIL ORGANISMS Volume

81 (3)

2009 pp. 671C694 ISSN:

1864 -

6417 2. Materials and methods The data published in the present list concerns all the four centipede orders in the class Chilopoda presently found in Western Europe (Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, Scolopendromorpha and Geophilomorpha). The data used come from the literature, from collections and from recent sampling mainly done by hand-collecting in various habitats or regions. The presence in mainland France (Fm), Corsica (Co) and Monaco (Mo) is quoted beside each taxon of the list, in order to present the essential distribution and to avoid repetition. Endemic species are noted (E). Some unpublished data are included as '

Author unpublished record/s'

. A short comment on species distribution, habitat, status (common/rare/ widespread/...) in France is added, mainly based on the following authors and references: Gadeau de Kerville (1884, 1886, 1890, 1932), Chalande (1886, 1888), Br?lemann (1895, 1898, 1899, 1926a, 1926b, 1930), Léger &