Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Myriapoda (Myriapods) ➔ Class Diplopoda (Millipedes, thousand-leggers) ➔ Order Glomerida (Glomeridans) ➔ Family Glomeridae
Glomeris hexasticha Brandt, 1833
Schrägstreifiger Saftkugler
Synonyms and other combinations:
Eurypleuroglomeris hexasticha (Brandt, 1833) | Eurypleuroglomeris hexasticha hexasticha (Brandt, 1833) | Glomeris ambigua Haase, 1886 | Glomeris europaea hexasticha Brandt, 1833 | Glomeris hexasticha divisa Haase, 1886 | Glomeris hexasticha formosa Latzel, 1884 | Glomeris hexasticha hexasticha Brandt, 1833 | Glomeris hexasticha hexasticha Brandt, 1833 ? | Glomeris hexasticha markomannica Verhoeff, 1906 | Glomeris hexasticha mniszechii Nowicki, 1870 | Glomeris hexasticha obscura Haase, 1886 | Glomeris hexasticha quadrimaculata Latzel, 1884 | Glomeris hexasticha rubiginosa Latzel, 1884 | Glomeris mniszechii Nowicki, 1870 |
(?: ambiguous synonym)
Distribution:
In parts of Europe: From Germany and Poland to the Mediterranean Sea (absent in Greece) and the Black Sea; eastwards to Ukraine.Habitat:
Forests and forest edges, mainly in montane and subalpine altitudes.Description:
Length to 17 mm; upper side with brown-black to black basic coloring with 7 (in the east usually only 6) rows of yellow-brown to red-brown spots; 2nd tergite usually with 1 main furrow, 0 - 1 pre-furrow and 2 - 4 subsidiary furrows; pre-anal tergite (the last segment) with in the male strongly and in the female weakly bulged out rear margin; above the rear margin, especially in the male, a cross bulge.Similar species:
Similar species are Glomeris intermedia, in which the posterior margin of the last tergite is not bulged out in the male, and the rare Glomeris helvetica, which has 4 rows of spots and occurs in Germany only in Hessen, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.Biology:
Glomeris hexasticha feeds on dead plant material such as old fallen leaves of oak, maple and beech.References, further reading, links:
- Sierwald P. & Spelda J. (2019). WoRMS MilliBase: MilliBase (version 2019-03-05). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
- René Hoess: Bestimmungsschlüssel für die Glomeris-Arten (Saftkugler) Mitteleuropas und angrenzender Gebiete (Diplopoda: Glomeridae) Jahrb. Naturhist. Mus. Bern 13: 3-20 (2000), ISSN: 0253-4401.
- Klausnitzer (Hrsg): Stresemann - Exkursionsfauna von Deutschland. Band 1: Wirbellose (ohne Insekten), Springer Spektrum. ISBN 978-3-662-55353-4. (Google preview)