''Diversibipalium multilineatum'' is a species of large

predatory Predation is a biological interaction in which one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

land flatworm. The species is native to Japan. Makino N, Shirasawa Y (1983). Morphological and ecological comparison with two new species of elongated-slender land planarians having several stripes and their new scientific names. Bulletin of Tokyo Medical College 9: 69-83 n Japanese, English summary/ref> It has been recorded in 2016 for the first time outside Asia, from

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

(from a finding in September 2014), and in several localities in France. More records in 2021 confirmed its presence in various regions of Italy. It is thus an

alien species An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there ...

to Europe.

Diversibipalium multilineatum from Italy - Fig 1 a - Body

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Diversibipalium multilineatum Geoplanidae Invertebrates of Japan Invertebrates of Europe Invertebrates of Italy Animals described in 1983