Brachyiulus lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 46-47

89. Brachyiulus lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898

Brachyiulus pusillus lusitanus Verhoeff, 1898 .

Brachyiulus corcyraeus Verhoeff, 1900 .

Brachyiulus corcyraeus arcadius Verhoeff, 1900 .

Microbrachyiulus calcivagus Verhoeff, 1910 .

Distribution

AT, BG, CH, CZ, DE, ES-BAL, ES-CNY, ES-SPA, FR-COR, GB-GRB, GR-GRC, HR, HU?, IT-ITA, IT-SAR, MC, MK, PT-AZO, PT-MDR, PT-POR. – Also Algeria, Egypt, Iran; introduced into Australia and North America.

Habitat

Found in forests, also open land (sandy area on Adriatic coast, on the roof of a police station situated in a field, grassy slopes on Gran Canaria as well as in laurel forest, under bark and moss. Dominant in meadows, corn fields and vineyards in NE Italy ( Paoletti et al. 1988). In Bulgaria in mixed forests, in meadows, under stone debris in quarry, in city park, 224–900 m (Vagalinski & Stoev 2007). The British record is from the Eden Park Project in Cornwall, which has created some warmer foreign environments in very large heated greenhouses. We leave it in as an introduction as it has been found outside.

Remarks

There is a record, from Iran, of this species infesting a child’s alimentary canal ( Mowlavi et al. 2009).