Typhloiulus maximus ( Verhoeff, 1929 )

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 : 342-343

Typhloiulus maximus ( Verhoeff, 1929)

Mesoporoiulus maximus Verhoeff, 1929

Typhloiulus maximus: Verhoeff 1930

Typhloiulus (Mesoporoiulus) maximus: Pretner & Strasser 1931 Typhloiulus (Stygiiulus) maximus: Manfredi 1932 Typhloiulus maximus var. longicauda Strasser, 1962 Typhloiulus maximus var. maximus: Strasser 1962

Material. All from Italy, 1 ♂ (EP) Friuli, Prealpi Carniche, Clauzetto, Sot i Andris (=Grotte Verdi=Caverne di Pradis di Sotto) (116 Fr/PN), 520 m, 30.XI.2003, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂, 5 ♀ (EP), Veneto, Cansiglio-Cavallo, Fregona, Monte Pizzoc, in a small cave, ca. 1530 m, 11.V.1993, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ (EP), Friuli, Prealpi Giulie, Ragogna, Monte di Ragogna, loc. San Pietro, in an excavation site, non-active at that time, 150 m, 01.VI.2008, D. Bianco & E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ (EP), Veneto, Prealpi Bellunesi, Belluno, small forest N of M. Faverghera, ca. 1520 m, 27.VII.2008, D. Bianco, M. Bognolo, A. Fabbri & E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂, 5 ♀ (EP) Veneto, Prealpi Bellunesi, Valdobbiadene, Grotta Maserazze (2113 V /TV), 1015 m, 21.V.1989, E. Piva leg.; 1 ♂ ( MCSNB), Ponte nelle Alpi, Quantin, Bus de Barba Checchoi, VBL 1245, date?,? leg.; 1 ♂ ( MCSNB), Clauzetto, Grotta presso Battei, date and collector unknown; 1 ♂ ( MRSNT), Friuli, Taipana, 31.V.1986, Casale leg.; 1 ♂ (coll. Minelli), Grotte Verdi, Fr 116, q 520, com. Clauzetto, on detritus in the dark, humid, deepest part of the cave, 29.V.1983, F. Gasparo leg.

Distribution. Recorded from numerous caves, as well as endogean habitats in the Prealps in northeast Italy ( Minelli, 1985; present study).

Remarks. The species was originally described as Mesoporoiulus maximus on the basis of a single female specimen. After examining a male, Verhoeff (1930) revised his opinion, recognizing T. maximus as a “true” Typhloiulus . In addition, he downgraded Mesoporoiulus to a subgenus of Typhloiulus with T. (M.) tobias Berlese as the only affiliated species.

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