Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 133

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.3866808
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE61D913-FF25-FF42-FE53-49CBFB88FBC0
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956
status

Treatment

425. Metaiulus pratensis Blower & Rolfe, 1956 View in CoL

Distribution

FR-FRA, GB-GRB. Atlantic.

Habitat

Heavy soils of farmland, woodland and wetland; in caves in the south of its range in Aquitaine.

Remarks

Four subspecies have been described from French caves by Demange (1958, 1965), Mauriès (1965) and Ceuca (1968). This little-recorded species was reviewed by Lee (2006).