Julus jedryczkowskii Golovatch 1981
Creators: name: Evsyukov, Aleksandr
name: Golovatch, Sergei
name: Reip, Hans S.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Julida
Julidae
Julus
Julus jedryczkowskii

description: Julus jedryczkowskii Golovatch, 1981
Figs 1C, 2C, 3E–F, 4E–F, 9, 14C, 15C, 16C, 17C, Map 1
Julus jedryczkowskii Golovatch, 1981: 105 (D).
Material examined. 1 female (paratype, ZMUM), Russia, North Ossetia, North Ossetian Nature Reserve, Tseissky Canyon, Tseidon Valley, Fagus forest, 29.VII.1977, leg. M. Rudakovskii; 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM,), same locality, Tseissky Mt. Ridge, Fagus forest, 1800 m a.s.l., pitfall traps, 20.VIII.1984; 2 males, 1 female, 1
juvenile (ZMUM), same locality and data; 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality, 10.VIII.1984; 2 females (ZMUM), same locality, 10.VIII.1984; 2 males, 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality, 27.VIII.1983; 4 females (ZMUM), same locality, 11–18.VIII.1982; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 17.VIII.1983; 1 male (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 male (ZMUM), same locality, 1700 m a.s.l., 21.VIII.1983; 1 male (ZMUM), same locality, 29.VIII.1983; 2 females (ZMUM), same locality and data, all leg. O. Gvozdeva; 2 males, 15 females, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality, 23.VIII.1984, leg. S. Alekseev; 3 females (ZMUM), same locality, 1700 m a.s.l., 13–16.IX.1983; 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality, 1.VIII.1983; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality and date; 2 males, 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality, 13.VIII.1984; 1 female, 3 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality and date; 2 females (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 male, 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 9– 12.VIII.1983, all leg. O. Gvozdeva; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 15.VIII.1982, leg. V. Matveeva; 4 females, 7 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality, 3000–3200 m a.s.l., alpine meadow, 13.VI.1980, leg. S. Alekseev; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, Pinus forest, 1800 m a.s.l., 1.IX.1983; 3 females (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 male, 2 females, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 female, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality and date; 2 females, 2 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 male, 2 females, 1 juvenile (ZMUM), same locality and date; 3 females (ZMUM), same locality and data; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 26.VIII.1983; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality and date; 5 males, 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, 18.VIII.1983; 6 females (ZMUM), same locality, 1700 m a.s.l., pitfall traps, 20.VIII.1983; 7 females (ZMUM), same locality, 27.VIII.1983; 2 females (ZMUM), same locality, 3.IX.1983; 2 females (ZMUM), same locality, 30.VIII.1983; 1 male, 1 female (ZMUM), same locality and data; 4 females, 1 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality and date; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, Alagir Mt. Ridge, 650 m a.s.l., traps, 18.VIII.1984, all leg. O. Gvozdeva; 1 female (ZMUM), Alagir Mt. Ridge, 9.V.1981; 1 female (ZMUM), same locality, Fagus forest, 650 m a.s.l., 13.V.1981; 1 male, 4 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality, 10.VIII.1983, all leg. V. Matveeva; 2 males, 4 females (ZMUM), N slope of Kalpersky Mt. Ridge, Betula forest, 2000 m a.s.l., 12.VIII.1982; 1 female, 2 juveniles (ZMUM), same locality and data; 7 males, 5 females (ZMUM), NE slope of Kalpersky Mt. Ridge, alpine meadow, 2800–2900 m a.s.l., 12.VIII.1982, all leg. S. Alekseev.
Diagnosis. Differs from other species of the genus by the following combination of characters. Coxa (cx) of male leg-pair 1 with a small lateral outgrowth (Figs 3E, 3F). Gonopodal promere (pr) relatively wide, with a long, thin, basal lamella (la) (Figs 9A, 9C). Mesomere (ms) rounded (Figs 9B, 14C). Lateral outgrowth (lo) of op large, pointed distally (Fig. 14C). Striations on metazonae irregular, not parallel to one another (Fig. 16C). Ampulla 1 (am1) of female vulva (vu) not expanded, ampulla 2 (am2) rounded, each located at different levels; female coxa 2 (l2) with a small, rounded, apicomesal outgrowth (Fig. 17C).
Descriptive notes. Length of adults 18–35 mm, width 1.2–1.9 mm. Number of segments in adults from 40+1+T to 47+1+T. Body dark brown, marbled greyish with a thin, black, dorsal, axial line, venter lighter; legs yellow. Antennae and anal valves greyish. Eye patches composed of 45–50 ocelli. Striae on metazonae irregular, often not parallel to one another (Fig. 16C).
All other characters as in J. alexandrae, except as follows. Antennae in situ reaching back to body segment 3. Antennomeres 5 and 6 each with a corolla of bacilliform sensilla (Fig. 1C). Each stipes of gnathochilarium with a group of 10–20 setae placed parabasally on a small tubercle below mentum (Fig. 2C).
Male leg-pair 1 (Figs 3E–F) with a well-developed suture between coxa (cx) and a 1-segmented telopodite remnant (te); cx with a small lateral outgrowth, te round, with a group of thick setae. Male leg-pair 2 with two coxal processes (Fig. 4E–F). Anterolateral process (alp) short and acuminate, main process (mp) long, straight and rod-shaped.
Promere (pr) relatively wide, with a lateral lamella (la) (Fig. 9C); flagella (fl) thickened in apical third (Fig. 9A–B). Mesomere (ms) rounded (Fig. 9B). Lateral outgrowth (lo) of opisthomere (op) large, pointed (Fig. 14C).
Ventral edge of male segment 7 with small curved lamellae bordering the gonopodal aperture (Fig. 15C).
Female vulva (vu) narrow, bursa (bu) with a pointed apical outgrowth. Ampulla 1 (am1) not expanded, ampulla 2 (am2) rounded, each located at different levels; coxa 2 (l2) with a small, rounded, apicomesal outgrowth (Fig. 17C, see also Golovatch 1981).
Remark. This species is a localized endemic of North Ossetia (Golovatch 1981), inhabiting the upper forest to alpine belts at altitudes 1800–2900 m a.s.l.
MAP 1. Distribution of Julus species: J. colchicus Lohmander, 1936 (green circle), J. alexandrae Evsyukov, 2016 (red square), J. jedryczkowskii Golovatch, 1981 (blue triangle), J. lignaui Verhoeff, 1910 (purple star), J. lindholmi Lohmander, 1936 (brown diamond).
description: Published as part of Evsyukov, Aleksandr, Golovatch, Sergei & Reip, Hans S., 2018, The millipede genus Julus Linnaeus, 1758 in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), pp. 89-117 in Zootaxa 4461 (1) on pages 97-100, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/1459872