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m; Cimini, 1,053 m; Vulsini, 631 m and Sabatini Mountains, 612 m; Albani
Hills, 949 m), as well as the coastal and sub-coastal plains separing each other
these reliefs (the southern part of the Maremma, Maccarese, Castel Porziano,
Castel Fusano, the Campagna Romana and the Pontina plain). Moreover, are
tal<:en in consideration the mainly marly-argillaceous and arenaceous-marly
hilly reliefs of Miocenic and Pliocenic origin along the Adriatic side.

METHODS

The present faunistic and zoogeographic analyses were clone based on the
data published by Zapparoli (2006a), which the scientific nomenclature, the
information on the general and local distribution and the local habitat pref-
erences of the species were used as well as the main chorotypes (patterns of dis-
tribution) attributed according to Vigna Taglianti et al. (1992, 1999). The
data reported in Zapparoli and Minelli (2006), Fanfani et al. (2006), Zapparoli
(2006b, 2007), Zapparoli and Peroni (2007) and Zapparoli and Biondi (2007)
were also considered; further records are detailed in the text. Available nomen-
clatural updating (Banato and Minelli, 2008) are also considered. The intro-
duced species (Lamyctes emarginatus, Lithobius peregrinus) and those of uncer-
tain taxonomic identity (Lithobius biporus, Schendyla aternana, S. viridis) were
excluded from the zoogeographic analysis.
The faunistic analysis was moreover carried out on the basis of the species
distributions (presence/absence) in natural geographic units. These units, in
some cases difficult to characterize by precise physical borders, were roughly
defined and listed on an approximate geographic arder from west to east and
from north to south as follows (the abbreviations used in Tab. I and II are
given in parentheses):

Tyrrhenian flat lands and mid-valley ofTevere River
l. Southern sector of T uscan Maremma, including the hilly area near
Scansano, the Uccellina Mountains, Argentario Mountain, and northern Lazio
(Tuscia) (Mam): between the valley of the Ombrone River to the north, the val-
ley of the Mignone River to the south, the Tyrrhenian Sea coast to west, the
western slopes of Amiata, Vulsini and Vicani Mountains to the east and south.
2. the Campagna Romana, including the Latial Maremma, Maccarese,
Castel Porziano, and Castel Fusano (Cam): the low Tevere River basin, from
the confluence of the Farfa River to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Soratte
Mountain to the north, the southern and orienta! slopes of the Sabatini
Mountains to the north-west, the western and southern slopes of the Sabini,
Tiburtini, Prenestini Mountains and of the Albani Hills to the east, and the
T orto River to the south-east.

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