Nemasoma varicorne C. L. Koch 1847 ...

• Main Authors: Kime, Richard Desmond, Enghoff, Henrik
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Julida; Nemasomatidae; Nemasoma; Nemasoma varicorne; taiga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3867304; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3867304

51. Nemasoma varicorne C.L. Koch, 1847 Distribution AT, BA, BE, BG, BY, CH, CZ, DE, DK-DEN, FI, FR-FRA, GB-GRB, GB-NI, HR, HU, IE, IT-ITA, IT- SI, LT, LU, LV, MK, NL, NO-NOR, PL, RO, RU-KGD, RU-RUC, SB, SE, SI, SK, UA. North, Central and Eastern Europe. Missing from most of the Mediterranean region and the whole of SW Europe. Habitat Obligate subcorticole found on a wide variety of trees, although some species seem to be favoured, especially Fagus sylvatica. In Sweden, however, the most frequent ‘host’ is Populus tremula; in the Rhein-Main region of Germany, it is Alnus glutinosa. Common on Populus tremula in Belarus (Tarasevich 1992). It may occasionally be found on the ground and has been taken in pitfall traps, even in grassland, perhaps during dispersal. It occurs in the southern taiga, broad-leaved and mixed forests as well as the northern forest-steppe. Remarks Parthenogenetic in the western, northern, eastern and southern parts of its large range, bisexual in the centre; areas of overlap where both ... : Published as part of Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), pp. 1-299 in European Journal of Taxonomy 346 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.346, http://zenodo.org/record/3866525 ...