Homoplasy and morphological stasis revealed through multilocus phylogeny of new myrmecophilous species in Armadillidiidae (Isopoda: Oniscidea)
Author
Recuero, Ernesto
Author
Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C.
Author
García-París, Mario
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2022
2021-12-04
194
4
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journal article
55995
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab066
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0024-4082
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CRISTARMADILLIDIUM
MURICATUM
(BUDDE- LUND, 1885)
(
FIGS 1D
,
5E
,
6E
)
Armadillidium muricatum
Budde-Lund, 1885: 297
.
Armadillidium (Cristarmadillidium) muricatum
Budde-Lund, 1885
;
Arcangeli, 1935: 172
.
Cristarmadillidium muricatum
(
Budde-Lund, 1885
)
; Vandel, 1954: 62.
Material examined:
Two males and
two females
(
MNCN 20.04
/14380-
MNCN 20.04
/14383),
Spain
,
Islas Baleares
, Ibiza,
Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera
,
38°58′34″N
,
1°26′45″E
,
3 June 2011
. –
Four males and
three females
(
MNCN 20.04
/14384-
MNCN 20.04
/14390),
Spain
,
Comunidad Valenciana
,
Alicante Province
, Denia,
La Xara
,
Punta de Benimaquia Cave
,
38°49′55″N
,
0°01′39″W
,
18 February 2016
.
Remarks:
Genetic differentiation between populations from the Iberian Peninsula (Alicante Province) and Ibiza Island is low, with a mean uncorrected
p
-distance of 0.6% in
Cox1
and identical sequences in all the analysed nuclear markers. This evidence, together with the broad geographical range in the Iberian Peninsula, from at least Cartagena (
Murcia
) in the south to Carcagente (
Valencia
) in the north (
Schmölzer, 1971
), suggests that the origin of the insular populations in Ibiza is recent. The latest terrestrial connection between the Iberian Peninsula and Ibiza dates from the Messinian (
Bover
et al.
, 2008
;
Mas
et al.
, 2018
); therefore, colonization of the island must have occurred by overseas rafting dispersal or associated with human activity, which has been documented for other organisms present in this archipelago (e.g.
Gómez & Espadaler, 2006
;
Podda
et al.
, 2011
;
Santos
et al.
, 2015
).
Cristarmadillidium muricatum
is a troglophilic species, with most known populations inhabiting karstic caves, but it is also present in limestone soils not associated with caves, as in the case of the studied population from Ibiza.