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Issue: Vol. 4350 No. 2: 17 Nov. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-11-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.11
Page range: 374–384
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New species of Xiphoniscus and new record of Androdeloscia escalonai (Isopoda, Scutocoxifera, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Brazilian Amazon

Universidade Estadual do Piauí, Campus Professor Barros Araújo, CEP: 64.600-000, Picos, Piaui, Brazil.
Universidade Estadual do Ceará, LABISO/Laboratório de Isopoda. Av. Dr. Silas Munguba, 1700, Campus do Itaperi, CEP: 60.714-903, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, CEP: 58.059-900, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil.
Crustacea terrestrial isopod Prosekiini

Abstract

A new species in the previously monotypic genus Xiphoniscus Vandel, 1968, X. adisi sp. nov. is described. Both X. mirabilis Vandel, 1968 from Ecuador and X. adisi sp. nov. from Brazil occur in the Amazon rainforest. The new species shows a prolonged coxal plate II drawn out caudally, an autapomorphy of Xiphoniscus. Xiphoniscus adisi sp. nov. differs from X. mirabilis mainly in the characteristics of buccal appendages and male pleopods. A diagnosis of the genus Xiphoniscus is provided. The species Androdeloscia escalonai is reported from the Brazilian Amazon for the first time.

 

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