Rossiulus kessleri

• Main Authors: Kime, Richard Desmond, Enghoff, Henrik
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2017
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Julida; Julidae; Rossiulus; Rossiulus kessleri; Rus’; Severnaya Dvina; Archangelsk; dvina
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3867385; https://zenodo.org/record/3867385

518. Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander, 1927) Schizophyllum kessleri Lohmander, 1927. Rossiulus strandi Attems, 1927. Sarmatiulus kessleri auct. Distribution BY, RU-RUC, RU-RUE, RU-RUN, RU-RUS, UA. East European. Habitat Forest, forest-steppe and northern steppe zones of Russia and Belarus in a wide variety of habitats, e.g., primary oak forest, mixed forest, pine forest, flood-plain forest, meadows, agricultural land, limestone denudations, calciphytic Stipa steppe with Thymus , Hyssopus and Artemisia . Abundant and often predominating in diplopod communities of both natural and anthropogenic habitats (Striganova 1996). Remarks This calciphilous subendemic of the Russian plain ranges from Central Belarus in the west to the regions of Bashkir and Orenburg in the east and from the Archangelsk region in the north (northernmost record: Severnaya Dvina River delta N of Archangelsk) southwards to Dagestan, beyond our European frontier. Prisnyi (2001) gave ecological details and showed a map suggesting a disjunct distribution based on the large river valley systems in the nemoral belt (Dnieper, Don, Volga). He described new varieties of the species and stated that these show increasing body miniaturisation and tegument sclerotisation towards the hotter and dryer south-east. The variety stepposa approaches Rossiulus vilnensis (Jawłowski, 1925) in the form of the opisthomerite and, as the two species occur together in Belarus, Prisnyi suggests that the status of the latter remains to be confirmed. Striganova (1996) studied the life cycle and reproductive strategy of R. kessleri. : 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 154-155, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.346, http://zenodo.org/record/3866525 : {"references": ["Attems C. 1927. Uber palaearktische Diplopoden. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 92 A: 1 - 256.", "Striganova B. 1996. Life cycles and reproductive strategies in local populations of Rossiulus kessleri (Lohmander) (Julidae, Diplopoda) from isolated habitats. Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle 169: 515 - 522.", "Prisnyi A. V. 2001. A review of the millipede fauna of the south of the Middle-Russian Upland, Russia (Diplopoda). Arthropoda Selecta 10: 297 - 305."]}