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Issue: Vol. 4294 No. 2: 18 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4294.2.11
Page range: 292–300
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A new amphibious troglobitic styloniscid from Brazil (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Synocheta)

Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Biologia. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia Aplicada. Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE), Laboratório de Isopoda. Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil.
Universidade Federal de Lavras (UFLA), Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Departamento de Biologia. Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia Aplicada. Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Isopoda Styloniscidae Xangoniscus Brazil

Abstract

Xangoniscus (Styloniscidae, Synocheta, Isopoda) includes only two species, both occurring in Brazil. Here a new amphibious troglobitic species of this genus found at Olhos D’Água Cave, Northern Minas Gerais, Brazil, is described. Xangoniscus itacarambiensis sp. nov. differs from the congeneric species mainly due to the following characters: head well-detached from the first pereonite, second and third articles of antennula subequal in length, presence of six short aesthetascs in the antennula and reduced triangular lobe in the distal part of pleopod 2 endopod.

 

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