Trogloiulus vailatii Strasser, 1978

Kime, Richard Desmond & Enghoff, Henrik, 2017, Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda), European Journal of Taxonomy 346, pp. 1-299 : 161

546. Trogloiulus vailatii Strasser, 1978

Distribution

IT-ITA (Lombardia, cave at Serle, Cariadeghe).

Habitat

Cavernicolous. Strasser (1978b) cited the notes of the collector, D. Vailati: “the millipedes were collected in an active meander in the abovementioned cave, called ‘branch of the waterfalls’ because of the presence of many waterfalls. The waterfalls change, in periods of little flow, into a film of water running over the vertical parts of the canal excavated in the rock. When collected, the adult diplopods were heading upstream, covered by at least a couple of millimetres of water, whereas the juvenile stadia could be found at the sides, where only the spray was reaching” (translated from Italian).

Remarks

Its mouthparts are modified like those of T. binii (q.v.).