Teleckophoron montanum Gulicka , 1972

Nefedieva, Julia S., Nefediev, Pavel S., Sakhnevich, Miroslava B. & Dyachkov, Yuri V., 2015, Distribution of millipedes along an altitudinal gradient in the south of Lake Teletskoye, Altai Mts, Russia (Diplopoda), ZooKeys 510, pp. 141-161 : 149

Teleckophoron montanum Gulicka, 1972

Teleckophoron montanum Gulička, 1972: 41: figs.

Teleckophoron montanum - Lokšina and Golovatch 1979: 383; Mikhaljova 1993: 35; 2004: 193-196, 195: figs, 107: map; Shelley et al. 2000: 79; Mikhaljova and Golovatch 2001: 113, 114: figs; Nefediev 2005a: 59; 2005b: 9; Nefediev and Nefedieva 2006: 98; 2007b: 161; 2008a: 117; 2008b: 62; 2013: 87; Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

3 males, 1 female, 4 juv. (ASU), site 8; 1 female, 3 juv. (ASU), site 8a.

Distribution.

The area of this species appears to encompass the Republic of Altai and the southern part of the Krasnoyarsk Province, both Siberia, Russia.

Remarks.

This species inhabits dark coniferous forests and montane tundras. The maximum altitude registered is about 1000 m a.s.l. ( Gulička 1972). In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the species prefers mid-mountain dark coniferous forests up to 1191 m a.s.l., where the numbers range from 3 to 8 ind./m2.