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
Eluma caelata
(
Miers, 1877
)
(
Figures 32
and
33
)
Material examined
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, St. 7, leg.
S. Taiti
,
29 April 2004
(
MZUF 9560
)
;
2 ♂♂
, St. 8, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
28 April 2004
(
MZUF 9561
)
;
1 ♀
, same locality and collectors,
28 September 2005
(
MZUF 9562
)
;
3 ♀♀
, St. 10, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
26 April 2004
(
MZUF 9563
)
;
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
, St. 11, leg.
S. Taiti
,
27 April 2004
(
MZUF 9564
)
;
4 ♂♂
,
29 ♀♀
, St. 18, cork-oak wood, leg.
S. Taiti
,
29 April 2004
(
MZUF 9565
)
;
7 ♂♂
,
2 ♀♀
, St. 20, under stones along path to waterfall, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
2 May 2004
(
MZUF 9566
)
;
1 ♀
, St. 22, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
30.IX.2005
(
MZUF 9567
)
.
Distribution
Southern British Isles, western
France
,
Portugal
,
Spain
, north-western Africa,
Canary Islands
, Madeira, and Azores. Introduced to Tasmania and French Guiana (
Schmalfuss 2003
). New record for the Rif region.
Remarks
The synonymy of
Eluma purpurascens
Budde-Lund, 1885
with
Armadillidium caelatum
Miers, 1877
was definitely established by
Schmalfuss (2003)
after examination of the
type
material of the latter species. The main characters of this species are illustrated here (
Figures 32
and
33
) on specimens from St. 18 (Fahsa) for comparison with the new species
Eluma praticola
described below.