Megaphyllum leucadium Attems 1929
Description
Megaphyllum leucadium (Attems, 1929)
Chromatoiulus leucadius Attems, 1929b: 465 –467, Figs 1–5.
Chromatoiulus (Phauloiulus) leucasius: Attems 1940: 307.
Chromatoiulus leucadius: Strasser 1974: 269, 272 and 290, 292, Fig. 66; Ceuca 1992: 425. Megaphyllum leucadium: Enghoff & Kime 2009.
Material examined. NHMW: Greece: Inv. No. 3111, gonopods, type, slide preparation; gonopods, slide preparation, Levkas (Frini, Enkluvi), Beier 1932; Inv. No. 8020, 533, 6ƤƤ, Levkas, leg. M. Beier, 30.5.1932.
Distribution in the Balkans. Greece: “Leucas” (today: Lefkada): Frini (type locality), Kaligoni and under Frini by the seacoast (Strasser 1974).
World distribution. Endemic to the island of Lefkada, Greece.
Remarks. This is the only hitherto known Megaphyllum species on the island; resembling M. cepahlonicum from the neighbouring Cephalonia Island, and M. recticauda from Corfu Island, Greece.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Julidae
- Genus
- Megaphyllum
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Julida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Attems
- Species
- leucadium
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megaphyllum leucadium Attems, 1929 sec. Lazányi, Vagalinski & Korsós, 2012
References
- Attems, C. (1929 b) Zoologische Forschungsreise nach den Jonischen Inseln und dem Peloponnes von Max Beier, Wien. IV. Teil. Myriapoda. Sitzungsberichte, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abteilung I, 138 (9 - 10), 463 - 470.
- Attems, C. (1940) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Iuliden. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, 50, 294 - 327.
- Strasser, K. (1974) Uber Diplopoda-Chilognatha Griechenlands. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 81 (1), 219 - 300.
- Ceuca, T. (1992) Quelques aspects sur la faunistique l'ecologie et la zoogeographie des diplopodes de la Region Balkanique. In: Meyer, E., Thaler, K. & Schedl, W. (Eds.) Advances in Myriapodology, Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, Supplement 10, 465 pp. 411 - 429.
- Enghoff, H., Kime, R. D. (2009) Fauna Europaea: Diplopoda. Fauna Europaea version 2.0, http: // www. faunaeur. org. (accessed 17 August 2011)