Mesoiulus gridellii Strasser, 1934

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 131

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scientific name	Mesoiulus gridellii Strasser, 1934
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417. Mesoiulus gridellii Strasser, 1934

Mesoiulus franzi Attems, 1944 .

Distribution

AT, IT-ITA (Venezia).

Habitat

Found in garden litter beach debris in Venice ( Strasser 1934). Thaler & Christian (2003) reported the species from the catacombs below St. Stephen’s cathedral in central Vienna. Also found in a palm house in Frankfurt, Germany; this record is not shown on the map.

Remarks

When Attems (1944) described Mesoiulus franzi he drew attention to its similarity with M. gridellii and remarked on its northerly situation with respect to all the other pachyiulines which are found in the Mediterranean zone. He considered it to be a relict in the warmest part of Austria.

References

Attems C. 1944. Zwei zoogeographisch bemerkenswerte Vorkommen von Myriopoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger 144: 162 - 165.

Strasser C. 1934. Diplopodi della laguna di Venezia. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Verona 19: 1 - 21.

Thaler K. & Christian E. 2003. Meosiulus gridellii Strasser (= M. franzi Attems, nov. syn.) in Wien (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae). Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 47: 187 - 189.