Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) of São Tomé Island, with the description of two new Armadillidae Brandt, 1831 species
Author
Cifuentes, Julio
Departamento de Biología (Zoología), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid (Spain) jcifcol @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
jcifcol@gmail.com
Author
DA SILVA, Luis P.
CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Rua Padre Armando Quintas, 4485 - 661 Vairão (and BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão (lfpascoals @ cibio
lfpascoals@cibio.up.pt
text
Zoosystema
2023
2023-11-14
45
21
635
652
https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/zoosystema2023v45a21.pdf
journal article
10.5252/zoosystema2023v45a21
1638-9387
10144298
4D471A16-6DD9-4AFA-AAE5-C0DCFC64406F
Agnara madagascariensis
* (
Budde-Lund, 1885
)
(
Fig. 2A
)
Metoponorthus madagascariensis
Budde-Lund, 1885: 189
.
Agnara madagascariensis
–
Budde-Lund 1908: 286
.
MATERIAL
EXAMINED
. —
Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe
•
1 ♀
;
São Tomé
;
0°21’25.6”N
,
6°43’12.0”E
;
8.V.2022
;
L.P. da Silva
leg.;
OST004
;
IBI
•
1 ♂
;
São Tomé
;
0°21’26.6”N
,
6°43’13.1”E
;
10.V.2022
;
L.P. da Silva
leg.;
MNCN 20.04/14247
•
1 ♂
;
São Tomé
;
0°21’26.6”N
,
6°43’12.7”E
;
11.V.2022
;
L.P. da Silva
leg.;
OST023a
;
IBI
•
1 ♂
;
São Tomé
;
0°21’26.6”N
,
6°43’12.7”E
;
11.V.2022
;
L.P. da Silva
leg.; Coll.
JC691
.
REMARKS
This species was described by
Budde-Lund (1885)
as
Metoponorthus madagascariensis
and latter placed by the same author (1908) in the genus
Porcellio
Latreille, 1804
and subgenus
Agnara
established by him.
Schmalfuss & Ferrara (1978)
described
Protracheoniscus inexpectatus
from
28 specimens
captured in
Guinea-Bisáu
, being this species synonymous with the previous (
Schmalfuss 2003
). It is recorded for the first time for
São Tomé
.
DISTRIBUTION
Agnara madagascariensis
is known from
Guinea-Bisáu
,
Senegal
,
Madagascar
, Arabia, south
China
,
Taiwan
,
Ascensión
island,
Colombia
and
Venezuela
(
Budde-Lund 1885
,
1908
;
Schmalfuss & Ferrara 1978
;
Taiti & Ferrara 1991
;
Schmalfuss 2003
;
López-Orozco
et al.
2022
).