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Issue: Vol. 4311 No. 1: 22 Aug. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-08-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.1.9
Page range: 129–136
Abstract views: 110
PDF downloaded: 2

Terrestrial isopods of the genus Porcellio Latreille, 1804 (Isopoda; Oniscidea) in Iran, with a description of a new species

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.
Crustacea Oniscidea Porcellio nomen oblitum new species Iran

Abstract

Terrestrial isopods of the genus Porcellio Latreille, 1804 were investigated in Iran. Porcellio obsoletus Budde-Lund, 1885 was found only in northern Iran while P. evansi Omer-Cooper, 1923 is broadly distributed in the country. Porcellio rubidus Budde-Lund, 1885 was deemed as a senior synonym of P. evansi. Porcellio mehrdadi sp. nov. was described and its diagnostic characters were figured. The new species is characterized by the male pereopod VII ischium with a setose field on sternal margin and a setose area on rostral surface.

 

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