Enantiulus nanus (Latzel, 1884)

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 90-91

268. Enantiulus nanus (Latzel, 1884)

Iulus nanus Latzel, 1884 .

Leptophyllum nanum auct.

Distribution

AT, BA, BE, BG, CH, CZ, DE, DK-DEN, FR-FRA, HR, HU, IT-ITA, LT, LU, MK, MN, NL, PL, RO, SB, SE, SI, SK, UA. Central European.

Habitat

Eurytopic to a large degree though showing a preference for relatively warm and especially damp forests, including inundation forests with Alnus and/or Populus , marshes and bogs. Yet it occurs in Fagus forests on limestone and in deciduous, mixed or coniferous forests on many other types of rock, e.g., basalt, granite, gneiss and sandstone. It also occurs in bushy areas, heaths, pastures, moorland and even dry calcareous grassland over a large altitudinal range. In Switzerland, for instance, it has been found from 270 m to 2060 m ( Pedroli-Christen 1993) and in Bulgaria up to 2400 m (Vagalinski & Stoev 2007). There are records from caves. It shuns urban sites and cultivated land and is most abundant in montane forests.

Remarks

Population densities of E. nanus are very high in many localities. It has been the subject of some detailed studies, e.g., Voigtländer (1987) and Kofler & Meyer (1992).