Cylindroiulus parisiorum (Brölemann & Verhoeff, 1896)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 66-67

165. Cylindroiulus parisiorum (Brölemann & Verhoeff, 1896)

Iulus parisiorum Brölemann & Verhoeff, 1896 .

Iulus luscus auct.

Cylindroiulus ignoratus Attems, 1927 .

Distribution

AT, BE, CH, CZ, DE, DK-DEN, FR-FRA, GB-GRB, GB-NI, HR, HU, IT-ITA, MC, NL, PL, SI, UA.

Habitat

In at least Britain, Belgium, Denmark and Switzerland it occurs as a subcorticole in rural sites and is found in hollow decaying trees, soft wood and sawdust. Elsewhere the records are usually synanthropic, usually in gardens, parks, spoil heaps, greenhouses or graveyards. Recorded from the catacombs in Paris, quarries, a wood yard and rural localities in France, including a wheatfield.

Remarks

While the map shows records scattered from France to the Ukraine, the vast majority of these come from south and east England, with fewer than 10 from France and three from Belgium; the others are isolated captures. It occurrs in association with human activity in all the countries shown, except Belgium (forest) and Switzerland (Caricaie wetlands). It is a fairly rare species, and some records are likely to be erroneous owing to possible confusion with other tail-less Cylindroiulus species. This includes the extra-European record from St. Helena Island by Hoffman (1977). We have left out some of the more doubtful records on the map. Regarded as threatened with extinction in Germany ( Voigtländer et al. 2011).