Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species Author Taiti, Stefano Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy; Author Rossano, Claudia Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy text Journal of Natural History 2015 2015-02-28 49 33 2067 2138 journal article 21136 10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512 c5336d61-ecae-4eb6-8592-60f43e587af8 1464-5262 3999869 DCBF3103-1463-4A32-9BC0-A4CFE8B762AE Graeconiscus thermophilus ( Çağlar, 1948 ) ( Figures 3–5 ) Material examined 72 ♂♂ , 132 ♀♀ , 3 juvs, St. 8, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano , 28 September 2005 ( MZUF 9455 ) ; 2 ♂♂ , 2 ♀♀ , same data ( SMNS 15676 ) ; 2 ♂♂ , 1 ♀ , same locality and collectors, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9456 ) . Distribution Graeconiscus thermophilus was previously known from the southern Aegean islands including Crete and western Turkey . New record for the Rif region. Remarks Haplophthalmus thermophilus was described by Çağlar (1948) on specimens from a warm spring at Armutlu, near Gemlik ( Turkey ). Strouhal (1963) redescribed and figured this species from the type locality. Schmalfuss et al. (2004) included the species in the genus Graeconiscus and considered Calconischellus aegeus Schmalfuss, 1972 recorded from Crete and several southern Aegean islands as a junior synonym of G. thermophilus . The specimens from Ghar-Knadel Cave (maximum length ♂ 3 mm , ♀ 3.7 mm ) are tentatively identified as Graeconiscus thermophilus since they correspond to the redescription provided by Strouhal (1963 , p. 392, Figures 22–26 ); in the disposition of dorsal ornamentation and the morphology of the male pereopod 7 and pleopod 1. They differ in lacking the eyes and in the shape of the tubercles on pereonite 7 and pleonite 3. In G. thermophilus the pereonite 7 has 3 + 3 tubercles as in the Moroccan specimens but the medial tubercle on each side is much smaller, and the single tubercle on pleonite 3 is transversally elongated while it is rounded in the Ghar-Knadel Cave specimens. The main characters of these specimens are illustrated in Figures 3–5 .