Omobrachyiulus brachyurum (Attems, 1899)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Diplopoda
Order: Julida
Family: Julidae
Genus: Omobrachyiulus

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Daghestan and the Russian Caucasus

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Drakotrypa, Mauriès 1984a, Stoev & Beron 2000, Lazányi et al. 2012, Beron 2016, Kime & Enghoff 2017, Vagalinski & Lazányi 2018
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Kavala / Municipality: Thasos / Closest settlement: Panagia

Comments

Subspecies Megaphyllum brachyurum thassensis Mauriès, 1985

IUCN Red List

NE - Not Evaluated

Greece's Red Data Book

NE - Not Evaluated

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

PESI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Kime R.D. & Enghoff H. 2017. Atlas of European millipedes 2: Order Julida (Class Diplopoda). European Journal of Taxonomy 346: 1–299.
• Lazányi, E., Vagalinski, B. & Korsós, Z. 2012. The millipede genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 in the Balkan Peninsula, with description of new species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae). Zootaxa, 47 (3228): 1-47.
• Mauriès, J. P. 1984. Ecologie et biogéographie des Cyclades. Deux espèces nouvelles de Diplopodes cavernicoles des Cyclades: Hyleoglomeris beroni (Glomerida) et Syrioiulus andreevi (Iulida). Biol. gallo-hellen., 11 (1): 37-49.
• Stoev, P. & Beron, P. 2000. On the type specimens of Myriapoda (Chilopoda, Diplopoda) in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia.. Arthropoda Selecta 9:91–102.
• Vagalinski B, Lazányi E. 2018. Revision of the millipede tribe Brachyiulini Verhoeff, 1909 (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), with descriptions of new taxa.. Zootaxa 4421(1):1–142

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Omobrachyiulus brachyurum (Attems, 1899). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 05.01.2025, Accessed 31.01.2026