Typhloiulus ausugi Manfredi, 1953

Vagalinski, Boyan, Stoev, Pavel & Enghoff, Henrik, 2015, A review of the millipede genus Typhloiulus Latzel, 1884 (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), with a description of three new species from Bulgaria and Greece, Zootaxa 3999 (3), pp. 334-362 : 336-337

Typhloiulus ausugi Manfredi, 1953

Typhloiulus Ausugi Manfredi, 1953

Typhloiulus ausugi: Strasser 1962

Typhloiulus (Stygiiulus) ausugi ausugi: Strasser 1971a Typhloiulus ausugi fimbriatus Strasser, 1971a Typhloiulus ausugi gentianae Strasser, 1971a Typhloiulus ausugi ausugi: Minelli 1985 Typhloiulus ausugi: Ceuca 1992

Material. All from Italy, 1 ♂ (incomplete), 1 ♀ (cf. ssp. gentianae/fimbriatus) (EP), Friuli, Cansiglio-Cavallo, Polcenigo, Buse Longhe (474 Fr/PN), 1445 m, 03.VI.2001, E. Piva leg.; 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (cf. ssp. gentianae/fimbriatus) (EP), Friuli, Cansiglio-Cavallo, Barcis, Grotte Vecchia Diga (327 Fr/PN), 484 m, 30.VI.1996, G. Peretto & E. Piva leg.; 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (cf. ssp. gentianae/fimbriatus) (EP), Friuli, Cansiglio-Cavallo, Montereale Valcellina, Grotta La Siviledo (not catalogued), 30.VI.1996, G. Peretto & E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ ( T. a. ausugi , topotype) (EP), Venez ia Tridentina, Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, Grigno, Grotta della Bigonda (243 VT/TN), 450 m, 10.III.1996, G. Peretto & E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ ( T. a. gentianae , topotype) ( MCSNB), Farra d’Alpago, Bosco del Cansiglio, Bus de la Genziana, V/TV1000, date and collector unknown; several spms (cf. T. a. gentianae ) ( MCSNB, ZMUC), Montereale Valcellina, Inghiottitotio Val di Pai, fr 469, date and collector unknown.

Distribution. Italy: cave of Bigonda near v. Grigno, Trentino ( type locality!; present study); cave S. Giovanni d’Antro, 3 km N of San Pietro al Natisone ( type locality of subsp. fimbriatus!); cave Bus de la Genziana (Altopiano del Cansiglio) near Vittorio Veneto ( type locality of subsp. gentianae!; present sudy); caves Buse Longhe, Vecchia Diga, La Siviledo in the region of Friuli (present study); Montreale Valcellina, Inghiottitotio Val di Pai (present study).

Remarks. Manfredi (1953) placed her newly described species in the then monotypic subgenus Stygiiulus Verhoeff , emphasizing the similarity between T. ausugi and the type species— T. illyricus . This is one of the few Typhloiulus species in which the mouthparts are modified for a presumed semiaquatic lifestyle, the others being T. edentulus and T. serbani ( Enghoff 1985) .