Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 133

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.346
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3866808
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scientific name	Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956
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Distribution

FR-FRA, GB-GRB. Atlantic.

Habitat

Heavy soils of farmland, woodland and wetland; in caves in the south of its range in Aquitaine.

Remarks

Four subspecies have been described from French caves by Demange (1958, 1965), Mauriès (1965) and Ceuca (1968). This little-recorded species was reviewed by Lee (2006).

References

Ceuca T. 1968. Une nouvelle forme cavernicole du genre Metaiulus (Dilopoda-Julidae). Annales de Speleologie 23: 191 - 193.

Demange J. - M. 1958. Trois nouveaux myriapodes cavernicoles de France. Notes Biospeologiques 13: 51 - 56.

Demange J. - M. 1965. Remarques sur quelques myriapodes cavernicoles de France. Description d'une forme nouvelle du genre Metaiulus. Bulletin de la Societe d'Histoire naturelle de Toulouse 100: 446 - 450.

Lee P. 2006. Atlas of the Millipedes (Diplopoda) of Britain and Ireland. Pensoft, Sofia.

Mauries J. - P. 1965. Une nouvelle sous-espece cavernicole de Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956 (Diplopoda Iuloidea). Annales de Speleologie 20: 519 - 522.