A comprehensive dataset of the geophilid centipedes of the South-Eastern Alps (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae s.l.)

Centipedes of the family Geophilidae s.l. are widespread in the Holarctic, with the South-Eastern part of the European Alps standing out as one of the most investigated regions. However, retrieving the published records for this taxon, even for this region, is challenging, since most of them are sparse in the specialistic literature, and interpreting them is hampered by the many taxonomic and nomenclatorial changes occurred in the past and recent times. We assembled and released a dataset of occurrence records of the geophilid species in the South-Eastern Alps, including all the published records and many other records present in unpublished catalogs of scientific collections. For each record, we integrated information from all the sources about: locality, date of collection, the taxonomic identifications, number and sex of individuals, and available sequences of molecular markers. For all the records we estimated geographic coordinates of the locality, when not originally provided, based on the information available. We also estimated the accuracy of the position. The dataset includes 3293 records referred to 39 species, obtained since the first half of the XIX century and up to 2022; 52% of these records have been released publicly for the first time in the dataset here described.