Proteroiulus fuscus (Am Stein, 1857)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 34

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.3867780

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE61D913-FF80-FFE7-FD8E-4880FE63F801

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Carolina

scientific name

Proteroiulus fuscus (Am Stein, 1857)
status

 

43. Proteroiulus fuscus (Am Stein, 1857) View in CoL

Blaniulus fuscus Am Stein, 1857 View in CoL .

Nopoiulus pulchellus View in CoL auct., not C.L. Koch, 1838.

Nopoiulus palmatus coelebs Verhoeff, 1907 .

Distribution

AT, BE, BG, BY, CH, CZ, DE, DK-DEN, DK-FOR, EE, ES-CAN, FI, FR-FRA, GB-CI, GB-GRB, GB- NI, HU, IE, IS, IT-ITA, IT-SI, LT, LU, LV, NL, NO-NOR, PL, PT-AZO, PT-MDR, RU-KGD, RU-RUC, RU-RUE, RU-RUN, RU-RUW, RU-RUS, SE, SK, UA. Northern, Eastern and Central Europe. – Also introduced into Canada, USA, South Africa and St. Helena.

Habitat

Subcorticolous on many kinds of trees, both deciduous and coniferous, for most of its life cycle and found in a wide variety of wooded biotopes (forest tundra, taiga, mixed and deciduous forests and forest-steppe). It is to be found in leaf litter and in the soil, seasonally. Trapping on trees and on the ground indicates that it tends to disperse in autumn and winter, at least in the more temperate areas. It is associated with non-calcareous soils and peaty soils in particular ( Tajovský 1998; Lee 2006).

It is sometimes the only millipede found in very dry pinewoods on sand.

South of about 48° N it is generally only found in mountainous terrain, for instance, in Switzerland at altitudes of between 400 m and 1525 m ( Pedroli-Christen 1993).

Remarks

A hardy species, very common in northern Europe, declining southwards, absent from much of France, Iberia, Italy and the Balkans. Found further north than any other species of millipede, in the foresttundra of the Yamal Peninsula. Males are very rare, and P. fuscus is regarded as a purely parthenogenetic species ( Enghoff 1978). The record from the Faeroe Islands is based on a juvenile and hence doubtful ( Meidell & Solhøy 1990).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Blaniulidae

Genus

Proteroiulus

Loc

Proteroiulus fuscus (Am Stein, 1857)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik 2017
2017
Loc

Blaniulus fuscus

Blaniulus fuscus Am Stein, 1857 .
Loc

Nopoiulus pulchellus

Nopoiulus pulchellus auct., not C.L. Koch, 1838.
Loc

Nopoiulus palmatus coelebs

Nopoiulus palmatus coelebs Verhoeff, 1907 .
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