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Issue: Vol. 4347 No. 3: 14 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.10
Page range: 583–591
Abstract views: 122
PDF downloaded: 1

The first record of the genus Desertoniscus Verhoeff, 1930 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae) from Europe, with the description of a new species 

A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia.
Myriapoda Isopoda Oniscidea new species woodlouse Desertoniscus Protracheoniscus

Abstract

A new woodlouse species, Desertoniscus zaitsevi sp. nov., is described from Kalmykia, Cis-Caspian region of Russia. The diagnostic features of the new species, as well as its affinities within the genus are provided and discussed. The new species is the northwesternmost in Eurasia, expanding the known distribution of this genus into Europe.

 

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