343. Leptoiulus saltuvagus (Verhoeff, 1898)

Iulus marmoratus Attems, 1895 .

Julus saltuvagus Verhoeff, 1898 .

Leptoiulus vagabundus auct.

Distribution

AT, CH, DE, HR, HU, IT-ITA, SI. Central and Eastern Alps.

Habitat

Woodland in the montane zone, e.g., Quercus, Carpinus, Tilia, Castanea, Fraxinus, Acer, Fagus, Pinus and occasionally Picea, and with Cornus, Ligustrum and Crataegus in the shrub layer. These habitats range up to about 1500 m. It is also found at some open sites. Higher up it occurs in sub-alpine meadows, the Rhododendron / Vaccinium shrub layer and at Alnus viridis sites at about 2000 m in Tyrol. It occurs above 2000 m in Empetrum-Vaccinietum-uliginosi heaths with lichens (Pedroli-Christen 1993, Meyer 1985, Voigtländer et al. 1997). Beron (2008) gives an altitudinal range from 700 m to 2500 m.

Remarks

The synonymy saltuvagus = marmoratus follows Attems (1927). Pending revisionary work on this species complex, we use the better known, albeit younger name, saltuvagus . The species seems to be quite tolerant with regard to water loss (Meyer & Eisenbeis 1985).