102 Rowland M. Shelley 



ca. 60.8 km (38 mi) SSE Valencia, Cueva Negra de Palma (Ribaut 1915). 

 Malaga Prov., Cueva del Cerro de la Pileta, nr. Ronda, nearest town 

 Benaojan, ca 100 km (62.5 mi) NNE Gibraltar (Matic 1960, Wiirmli 

 1975). 



The following unpublished records were communicated by A. Minelli 

 and are incorporated into Figures 44 and 45. 



CROATIA: Krk Island. 



SPAIN: Granada Prov., Sierra Nevada and Capileira de Poqueira 

 (possibly referring to a small town on the southern slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada). 



Deleted records. The following literature records are deleted. Minelli 

 (1991) does not include T. erythrocephalus in his list of centipedes 

 in northeastern Italy and does not anticipate its discovery at Trieste; 

 a voucher specimen has never been located, and an old Trieste label 

 could refer to a site in Istria (Minelli, in lift.). Foddai et al. (1995) 

 list T. erythrocephalus as a questionable inhabitant of northern Italy 

 and state that its presence should be confirmed. Kos (1992) does not 

 record T. erythrocephalus from Slovenia, and this location, some 128 

 km (80 mi) inland, is implausible for the species. 



ITALY: Trieste Prov., Trieste (Attems 1929). 



SLOVENIA: near Brestanica (=Bucerca-Hohle bei Reichenburg, 

 Sudsteiermark (Attems, 1959)). 



Genus Plutonium Cavanna 

 Plutonium Cavanna, 1881:169. Kraepelin, 1903:67. Verhoeff, 1907:253. 

 Attems, 1930:253. Foddai et al., 1995:8. 



Type species. P. zwierleini Cavanna, 1881, by monotypy. 



Diagnosis. With 19 pairs of spiracles, on segments 2-20. 



Distribution. Known from Granada Province, Spain, and the following 

 regions of Italy: Sicily, southeastern Sardinia, and coastal Campania, 

 particularly the Sorrento Peninsula (Fig. 44) (Wiirmli 1975, Foddai 

 et al. 1995). 



Species. One. 



Remarks. A check of Attems (1930) and subsequent publications 

 reveals that Plutonium and Tonkinodentus are the only known cryptopid 

 genera that are absent from the Western Hemisphere and that the family 

 Cryptopidae is primarily an "American," New World, taxon. 



Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna 

 Figs. 42-43 

 Plutonium zwierleini Cavanna, 1881:169-170, Figs. 1-7. Kraepelin, 1903:67- 

 68, Fig. 27. 



