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Issue: Vol. 5804 No. 1: 6 May 2026
Type: Monograph
Published: 2026-05-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5804.1.1
Page range: 1-74
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Unveiling Caribbean diversity: 11 new species of Venezillo Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda: Armadillidae) from Colombia and redescription of the type species

Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos Neotropicales—GIANT; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais; Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos; São Paulo; Brazil.; Grupo de investigación GIBEAM; Universidad del Sinú; Elías Bechara Zainúm; Seccional Cartagena.
Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos Neotropicales—GIANT; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais; Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos; São Paulo; Brazil.
Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos Neotropicales—GIANT; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Recursos Naturais; Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde; Universidade Federal de São Carlos; São Carlos; São Paulo; Brazil.
Grupo de Investigación en Artrópodos Neotropicales—GIANT; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade; Instituto de Biociências; Letras e Ciências Exatas; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”; São José do Rio Preto; São Paulo; Brazil.; Laboratório de Diversidade e Sistemática de Arachnida—LaDiSA; Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” UNESP; Jaboticabal; São Paulo; Brazil.
Grupo de Investigación Territorios Semiáridos del Caribe; Facultad de Ingeniería; Universidad de la Guajira; La Guajira; Colombia.
Sección de Entomología; Colecciones Biológicas; Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt; Villa de Leyva; Boyacá; Colombia.
Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Sesto Fiorentino; Florence; Italy.
Grupo de Investigación en Biología Descriptiva y Aplicada; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.
Grupo de Investigación Hidrobiología; Universidad de Cartagena; Programa de Biología; Campus San Pablo; Cartagena de Indias; Colombia.
Department of Biological Sciences; University of Cyprus; Lefkosia (Nicosia); Cyprus.
Crustacea Neotropical region terrestrial isopods woodlice taxonomy Tropical Dry Forest

Abstract

The genus Venezillo Verhoeff, 1928 is among the most diverse and widely distributed genera of terrestrial isopods in the Neotropical region, yet it remains poorly studied in much of South America. In this study, we revise the genus in the Colombian Caribbean and describe eleven new species, all collected from remnants of Tropical Dry Forest (TDF), one of the most threatened ecosystems in the region. We also provide redescriptions of V. clausus (Budde-Lund, 1885), the type species of the genus, based on material from Venezuela, and of V. grenadensis (Miers, 1877) and V. gigas (Budde-Lund, 1893), based on specimens from Grenada and Nicaragua, respectively. Our results reveal new diagnostic characters for the genus and highlight the importance of detailed male morphology for species delimitation. Ecological observations show that Venezillo species inhabit leaf litter and decaying wood in dry forest environments, with activity patterns potentially influenced by seasonal microclimatic variation. Finally, we present an updated checklist of Armadillidae in Colombia and emphasize major knowledge gaps and priorities for future research.

 

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López-Orozco, C.M., Carpio-Díaz, Y.M., Arrieta, R.B.-., Bravo-Rodríguez, A.E., Gutierrez-Estrada, M., Moreno, J.C.N., Taiti, S., Bermúdez, A., S., G.R.N.-. & Campos-Filho, I.S. (2026) Unveiling Caribbean diversity: 11 new species of Venezillo Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda: Armadillidae) from Colombia and redescription of the type species. Zootaxa, 5804 (1), 1–74. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5804.1.1