Henia montana

22. Henia (Chaetechelyne) montana (Meinert, 1870)

Chaetechelyne montana Mein.: Léger and Duboscq 1903: 312. (1)

Chaetechelyne montana Mein.: Verhoeff 1925a: 655. (2)

Chaetechelyne vesuviana: Brölemann 1926: 231. (3)

Chaetechelyne montana Mein.: Attems 1929: 240. (4)

Chaetechelyne montana Mein.: Attems 1949: 110. (5)

Henia montana (Meinert, 1870): Foddai et al. 1996: 361, Tab. I. (6)

Henia (Chaetechelyne) montana (Meinert, 1870): Geoffroy and Iorio 2009: 683. (7)

Literature records.

General. Corsica (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Epigeic. Haute-Corse, 2B - Vizzavona (1) [III].

General distribution.

Europe: Croatia, France (mainland, Corsica?), Italy (mainland) ( Brölemann 1930, Kos 1992, Stoev 1997, Zapparoli and Minelli 2005).

Chorotype.

S-European.

Ecological notes.

No records; the sole locality known seemingly falls in the Montane belt.

Remarks.

Subgeneric assignment according to Minelli (1982). Only known from a female with 53 leg pairs from Vizzavona ( Léger and Duboscq 1903). The subsequent generic citations from Corsica published by various authors (Verhoeff 1925a, Brölemann 1926, Attems 1929, 1949, Foddai et al. 1996, Geoffroy and Iorio 2009) are all probably based on this record, as well as, at least in part, the mention by Minelli (1978) in the centipede fauna of the Sardinia-Corsica geographic complex. Minelli (1982) did not explicitly mention Corsica (and Sardinia) in the range of the species and as no recently collected materials are known, the occurrence of Himantarium montana in Corsica needs to be confirmed.