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
Armadillo officinalis
Duméril, 1816
Armadillo officinalis
;
Dollfus, 1896
, p. 527;
Paulian de Félice, 1939
, p. 212;
Vandel, 1958a
, p. 130;
Achouri et al., 2008c
, pp. 76–78
Material examined
6 ♂♂
,
5 ♀♀
,
St.
2, under stones at base of cliff, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
1 May 2004
(
MZUF 9580
)
;
1 ♀
,
St.
7, leg.
S. Taiti
,
29 April 2004
(
MZUF 9581
)
;
6 ♂♂
,
5 ♀♀
, same locality, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
29 September 2005
(
MZUF 9582
)
;
5 ♂♂
,
11 ♀♀
, 2 juvs,
St.
10, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
26 April 2004
(
MZUF 9583
)
;
1 ♂
,
5 ♀♀
,
St.
11, leg.
S. Taiti
,
27 April 2004
(
MZUF 9584
)
;
1 ♂
,
4 ♀♀
,
St.
12, leg.
C. Rossano
,
26 April 2004
; (
MZUF 9585
)
1 ♂
,
3 ♀♀
,
St.
14,
Phillyrea
wood, leg.
S. Taiti
,
27 April 2004
(
MZUF 9586
)
;
3 ♂♂
,
3 ♀♀
,
1 juv.
, same locality, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
27 September 2005
(
MZUF 9587
)
;
9 ♂♂
,
5 ♀♀
, 6 juvs,
St.
15, sieved ground near stream, leg.
S. Taiti
,
27 April 2004
(
MZUF 9588
)
;
6 ♂♂
,
9 ♀♀
,
St.
16, along road margin under stones, leg.
S. Taiti
,
28 April 2004
(
MZUF 9589
)
;
2 ♂♂
,
9 ♀♀
,
St.
19, leg.
S. Taiti
,
29 April 2004
(
MZUF 9590
)
;
4 ♀♀
,
St.
20, under stones along path to waterfall, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
2 May 2004
(
MZUF 9591
)
;
2 ♂♂
,
2 ♀♀
,
St.
21, leg.
S. Taiti
and
C. Rossano
,
30 September 2005
(
MZUF 9592
)
;
1 ♀
,
St.
23, under stones, leg.
S. Taiti
,
30 April 2004
(
MZUF 9593
)
.
Previous Rif records
Ixmoart and Mt Gurugu, near
Melilla
;
Isla
de Alhucemas; Tétouan; Benitez, near
Ceuta
(
Vandel 1958a
); Oued Laou region (
Achouri et al. 2008c
).
Distribution
Mediterranean basin,
Morocco
and
Portugal
.
Remarks
For diagnostic characters of
A. officinalis
see
Vandel (1962
, p. 855, Figures 408, 409).