Typhloiulus tobias ( Berlese, 1886 )

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 : 345-346

Typhloiulus tobias ( Berlese, 1886)

Julus (Typhloiulus) Tobias Berlese, 1886

Typhloiulus tobias: Attems 1927

Typhloiulus ( Iulus , Mesoporoiulus ) Tobia ( tobias ): Manfredi 1932 Typhloiulis (sic!) tobias: Boldori 1936

Typhloiulus Tobia (sic!): Boldori 1937

Typhloiulus (Mesoporoiulus) tobias: Attems 1949 Typhloiulus Tobias : Conci 1951

Typhloiulus tobias var. fuscus Manfredi, 1951 Typhloiulus tobias pygmaeus Manfredi, 1953 Typhloiulus tobias fuscus: Manfredi 1953

Material. All from Italy, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (EP), Veneto, Lagorai-Cima d’Asta-Coppolo, Lamon, Grotta di San Donato (133 V/BL), 644 m, 20.V.1986, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ (EP), Veneto, Altopiano di Lavarone-Luserna, Valdastico, Caverna del Pipistrello ( 93 V /VI), 500 m, 01.V.1990, I. Ferrari-Piva leg.; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (EP), Veneto, Le Vette Feltrine, Sovramonte, Grotta Faller (3189 V/BL), 700 m, 16.V.2010, D. Bianco & E. Piva leg.; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, (EP), Veneto, Altopiano dei Sette Comuni, Valstagna, Grotta del Subiolo (135 V/VI), 169 m, 31.III.1990, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ (EP), Veneto, Massiccio del Pasubio-Novegno, Piovene Rocchette, Grotta di Mordifaia (6537 V/VI), 915 m, 02.VIII.2005, D. Bianco leg.; 1 ♂, 3 ♀ (EP), Veneto, Monti Lessini, Valdagno, Tana del Tasso (557 V/VI), 578 m, 10.III.1990, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ (EP), Veneto, Altopiano dei Sette Commune, Marostica (Vicenza), q. 250, Grotte d’Inverno ( 1978 V / VI), 27.III.1994, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZMUC), Veneto, Altopiano dei Sette Commune, Sarcedo (Vicenza), q. 160, Grotta della Lora ( 1699 V /VI), 19.IV.1984, E. Piva & I Ferrari leg.; 1 ♂ ( MCSNB), Asiago, mine in Malga Manderiolo, date and collector unknown; 1 ♂ ( MCSNB), Velo Veronese, Grotta della Croce VVR 85, date and collector unknown; 1 ♂ ( MCSNB), Velo Veronese, Grotta di Monte Capriolo VVR 1071, date and collector unknown; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (coll. Minelli), Buso de la Bela (o de la Vecia), q. 670, com. Lamon, 10.VII.1982, F. Gasparo leg., on a piece of wood with bark, 60 m from the entrance.

Distribution. Recorded from many caves in the Italian Prealps, north-northeast of Vicenza ( Minelli, 1985; new data); the species seems to be confined to higher altitudes compared to the adjacently distributed T. montellensis .

Remarks. T. tobias is host to the ectoparasitic laboulbeniacean fungus Troglomyces manfrediae Colla ( Santamaria et al. 2014) .