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The study was carried out in the years 2016–2017, five years after a windstorm which destroyed 1/3 of the protected beech forest area in the west of Poland. The community of centipedes in the area affected by the windstorm was depleted in terms of the species richness, diversity, and population density. The dominance structures were shortened and the species composition was rebuilt. The areas that proved to be the richest in terms of species richness and diversity among the sites affected by the windstorm were the one where windfallen trees were left and the other where beech trees had been planted by humans. In total, the quantitative and qualitative samples collected four times throughout a year featured 608 specimens from 11 species of two centipede orders – Lithobiomorpha and Geophilomorpha. Lithobius curtipes and L. forficatus were found in all of the investigated areas. L. pelidnus and L. piceus were captured at control sites exclusively. Only one species –L. erythrocephalus was found solely at the damaged site. The most numerous and most frequently found species in the community were L. curtipes, L. mutabilis, and Strigamia acuminata respectively. Although windstorms are natural phenomena their consequences may lead to significant changes in the community of the investigated soil animals. The importance of coarse woody debris, significantly contributing to the improvement and maintenance of species richness and diversity of Chilopoda, has once again been confirmed.

Strigamia acuminata (Leach, 1815) Geophilus acuminatus Leach, 1815: 386. LOCALITÉ TYPE. — Angleterre, RoboroughDown près de Plymouth; champs de Battersea. MATÉRIEL EXAMINÉ. — Saint-Martin-Vésubie (06), PNM, vallon Madone de Fenestre, lariçaie, 1830 m, 44°05’36’’N- 7°21’24’’E, 22.V.2010, réc./dét. MZ: 1♂ à 39pp. Spécimens conservés en éthanol à 70° dans la collection personnelle de l’auteur (MZ). RÉPARTITION ET HABITAT. — S. acuminata est largement réparti en Europe, mais est absent des contrées les plus nordiques (Norvège, Suède), sa limite septentrionale de répartition étant le sud du Danemark (Andersson et al. 2005; Zapparoli 2006; Geoffroy & Iorio 2009; Bonato et al. 2012). Il est présent dans de nombreux départements français. Dans les Alpes-Maritimes, ce géophilomorphe est peu commun, connu en forêt et seulement dans les étages montagnards et sub-alpins (1350 à 2000 mètres d’altitude): deux lariçaies, une pessière, une forêt de nature indéfinie. Notons que le caractère strictement sylvicole de celui-ci est déjà bien établi dans le reste de sa répartition, et qu’il s’agit d’une espèce essentiellement inféodée aux forêts caducifoliées, hêtraies notamment (Iorio 2014). Toutefois, à l’instar de L. (L.) dentatus évoqué plus haut, il semble aussi plus montagnard ici et peut parfois être trouvé dans d’autres types de boisements comme l’illustrent nos données et celles de Minelli & Iovane (1987), Zapparoli (1993, 2006) et Spelda (1999), surtout dans le sud de sa répartition. Mais même dans cette dernière, les boisements caducifoliés et le hêtre en particulier restent notablement privilégiés; par exemple, sur les 73 stations où l’habitat est connu dans les Apennins centrales, 65 sont des forêts caducifoliées en tout ou partie (15 forêts mixtes), dont 43 hêtraies, et sept autres sont des forêts de conifères (sapinières, pinèdes) (Zapparoli 2006)., Published as part of Iorio, Étienne, Zapparoli, Marzio, Ponel, Philippe & Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, 2015, Les myriapodes chilopodes (Chilopoda) du Parc national du Mercantour, du département des Alpes-Maritimes et de leurs environs: description d'une nouvelle espèce du genre Lithobius Leach, 1814 s. s., synthèse des connaissances et espèces menacées, pp. 211-238 in Zoosystema 37 (1) on page 232, DOI: 10.5252/z2015n1a11, http://zenodo.org/record/5155397, {"references":["LEACH W. E. 1815. - A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, wich Linne arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, etc. and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society 11: 307 - 400.","ANDERSSON G., BJARNE M., SCHELLER U., DJURSVOLL P., BUDD G. & GARDENFORS U. 2005. - Mangfotingar. Myriapoda. Nationalnyckeln till Sveriges Flora och Fauna, Upsalla 351 p.","GEOFFROY J. - J. & IORIO E. 2009. - The French centipede fauna (Chilopoda): updated checklist and distribution in mainland France, Corsica and Monaco. Soil Organisms 81 (3): 671 - 694.","BONATO L., DANYI L., SOCCI A. A. & MINELLI A. 2012. - Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis. Zootaxa 3593: 1 - 39.","IORIO E. 2014. - Catalogue biogeographique des chilopodes (Chilopoda) de France metropolitaine. Memoires de la Societe linneenne de Bordeaux 15: 1 - 372.","MINELLI A. & IOVANE E. 1987. - Habitat preferences and taxocenoses of Italian centipedes. Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia naturale di Venezia 37: 7 - 34.","ZAPPAROLI M. 1993. - Chilopodi dell'Italia Nord-Occidentale. Rivista Piemontese di Storia Naturale 14: 97 - 127.","SPELDA J. 1999. - Verbreitungsmuster und Taxonomie der Chilopoda und Diplopoda Sudwestdeutschlands. Diskriminanzanalytische Verfahren zur Trennung von Arten und Unterarten am Beispiel des Gattung Rhymogona Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Craspedosomatidae). Ph. D. Thesis, University of Ulm. Part I: 217 p. Part II: 324 p."]}

As a result of studies carried out from 1987 to 1990 in the Roztocze Upland, the occurrence of 19 centipede species has been found. Among the most frequent and numerous species there were Lithobius mutabilis, Lithobius curtipes, Lithobius cyrtopus, Strigamia acuminata.

Strigamia acuminata (Leach, 1815) Synonyms: Geophilus subtilis C.L. Koch, 1838; Linotaenia rosulans C.L. Koch, 1847; Geophilus sanguineus Gervais, 1847; Scolioplanes variabilis Verhoeff, 1895; Scolioplanes engadinus banaticus Verhoeff, 1935. Nominal subspecies: S. acuminata microdon (Attems, 1904); S. acuminata brevidentata (Verhoeff, 1928); S. acuminata italica (Verhoeff, 1928); S. acuminata pachypus (Verhoeff, 1935). References for morphology: Brolemann 1930 (in part); Verhoeff 1935; Eason 1964; Matic 1972; Koren 1986; Iorio 2004, 2005; Barber 2008, 2009a. Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Geophilus, it was subsequently cited under different genera, including Linotaenia and Scolioplanes. It has been classified in Strigamia since Crabill (1953). Different varieties and subspecies were recognized, mainly by Verhoeff (1928, 1935), but their validity was sometimes questioned though not definitively rejected (Schubart 1967; W��rmli 1972; Stoev 1997). Its name has been occasionally misspelled as ��� Linotaenia attenuatus ��� (Chamberlin 1911) Geophilus subtilis, Linotaenia rosulans and Geophilus sanguineus were synonymized under S. acuminata first tentatively by Bergs��e & Meinert (1866) and Meinert (1870), then definitively by Plateau (1872). Scolioplanes variabilis was introduced by Verhoeff (1895) to indicate a putatively variable species that, in his opinion, had been separated incorrectly into two species, namely S. acuminata Leach and S. crassipes C.L. Koch. In his concept, S. variabilis comprised three subspecies, which he called S. variabilis acuminata, S. variabilis crassipes and S. variabilis carniolensis Verhoeff (currently a subspecies of S. crassipes; see below). Verhoeff���s opinion was followed only by a few authors, and only in part, and eventually abandoned by him. The species name S. variabilis was completely ignored in subsequent literature, apart from being listed among the synonyms of S. crassipes by Matic (1972). Actually, S. variabilis should be costrued as a junior synonym of S. acuminata, because the latter should have been recognised as the valid name for Verhoeff���s composite species, according to the principle of priority (I.C.Z.N. 1999: art. 72.9). Scolioplanes engadinus banaticus was described by Verhoeff (1935) and rarely cited by subsequent authors, until Matic (1972) listed it among the synonyms of S. engadina. However, Verhoeff (1935) acknowledged that it is very similar to S. acuminata and also gave a range of variation in the number of trunk segments that corresponds to that of S. acuminata but not to that of the nominotypical subspecies of S. engadina. S. engadinus banaticus is recognized here as a junior synonym of S. acuminata (new synonymy). Distribution: most of continental Europe, from the Iberian peninsula to the Caucasus and Volga basin; also Great Britain and Sicily. It has been reported as introduced to some localities in the eastern part of North America. Published records from the western part of North America and Japan need confirmation because of probable confusion with S. chionophila, which has been sometimes considered a synonym of S. acuminata (see under S. chionophila). A vague citation for North Africa is probably erroneus (see under Discussion)., Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, D��nyi, L��szl��, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on page 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214898, {"references":["Leach, W. E. 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Strigamia acuminata (Leach, 1815) Scolioplanes acuminatus italicus: Manfredi, 1957: 12, 23, 33 Strigamia acuminata: Matic, 1971: 244 MATERIALE ESAMINATO: 1 ex., Lucania (Potenza), Monte Le Alpi, da rif. Favino (m 1500) a m 1893, 7.VII. 1983, LF; 1 ex., Lucania (Potenza), Massiccio del Pollino, Monte Pollino, m 1500, 2.VI. 1977, RA; 1 ex., ibidem, m 1500-1850, 9.VII. 1983, MZ; 3 exx., Massiccio del Pollino, Colle Gaudolino, m 1500-1680, 9.VII. 1983, MB-EC., Published as part of Marzio Zapparoli, 1986, Osservazioni sui Chilopodi dell'Appennino lucano e calabrese (Chilopoda), pp. 311-340 in BIOGEOGRAPHIA-Lav. Soc. ital. Biogeoqr. N. S. 10 (1984) on page 317