Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 154-155

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2017.346

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9600FFB8-3FB9-4522-B030-D5A6B145EDEB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3867386

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE61D913-FF38-FF5C-FDB6-4D13FE4EFCCB

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927)
status

 

518. Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927) View in CoL

Schizophyllum kessleri Lohmander, 1927 View in CoL .

Rossiulus strandi Attems, 1927 View in CoL .

Sarmatiulus kessleri View in CoL auct.

Distribution

BY, RU-RUC, RU-RUE, RU-RUN, RU-RUS, UA. East European.

Habitat

Forest, forest-steppe and northern steppe zones of Russia and Belarus in a wide variety of habitats, e.g., primary oak forest, mixed forest, pine forest, flood-plain forest, meadows, agricultural land, limestone denudations, calciphytic Stipa steppe with Thymus , Hyssopus and Artemisia . Abundant and often predominating in diplopod communities of both natural and anthropogenic habitats ( Striganova 1996).

Remarks

This calciphilous subendemic of the Russian plain ranges from Central Belarus in the west to the regions of Bashkir and Orenburg in the east and from the Archangelsk region in the north (northernmost record: Severnaya Dvina River delta N of Archangelsk) southwards to Dagestan, beyond our European frontier.

Prisnyi (2001) gave ecological details and showed a map suggesting a disjunct distribution based on the large river valley systems in the nemoral belt (Dnieper, Don, Volga). He described new varieties of the species and stated that these show increasing body miniaturisation and tegument sclerotisation towards the hotter and dryer south-east. The variety stepposa approaches Rossiulus vilnensis (Jawłowski, 1925) in the form of the opisthomerite and, as the two species occur together in Belarus, Prisnyi suggests that the status of the latter remains to be confirmed. Striganova (1996) studied the life cycle and reproductive strategy of R. kessleri .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Julidae

Genus

Rossiulus

Loc

Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik 2017
2017
Loc

Schizophyllum kessleri

Schizophyllum kessleri Lohmander, 1927 .
Loc

Rossiulus strandi

Rossiulus strandi Attems, 1927
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