Julus insolitus Mikhaljova, 2009

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 : 144

Julus insolitus Mikhaljova, 2009

non Julus ghilarovi brachydactylus - Nefedieva and Nefediev 2008: 123.

Julus insolitus Mikhaljova, 2009b: 66-67, 64: figs.

Julus insolitus - Nefediev and Nefedieva 2013: 87; Nefedieva et al. 2014: 65.

Material examined.

4 males, 5 females, 4 juv. (ASU), site 9; 4 males, 1 female (IBSS), 6 males, 9 females, 10 juv. (ASU), site 10; 2 males, 6 females, 17 juv. (ASU), site 10a; 7 males, 17 females, 25 juv. (ASU), site 11; 20 males, 9 females, 49 juv., 1 fragm. (ASU), site 12; 1 male, 1 female, 1 juv. (ASU), site 13; 2 males, 4 females, 7 juv. (ASU), site 13a; 3 males, 8 females, 10 juv. (ASU), site 14; 1 female, 2 juv. (ASU), site 15; 14 males, 15 females, 22 juv. (ASU), site B; 10 males, 12 females, 15 juv. (ASU), site 16; 2 females, 6 juv. (ASU), site 18.

Distribution.

The species appears to be spread only in the south of Siberia, Russia: Republic of Altai.

Remarks.

This species has been described by Mikhaljova (2009b) on two male specimens, which are known to occur in forest-tundra and rocky tundra. In the Kyga Biogeocenosis Profile the species is collected from the upper line of mid-mountain chern taiga forests through subalpine sparse growths of Pinus sibirica to mountain tundra with Betula rotundifolia and Salix glauca . The maximum abundance is about 98 ind./m2 registered in the old fire-site of sparse growths of Pinus sibirica now occupied with a succession of dwarf trees of Betula rotundifolia and Salix glauca . The above female specimens are the first records in this species.