Novamundoniscus Schultz, 1995

Campos-Filho, Ivanklin Soares, Sfenthourakis, Spyros, Gallo, Jéssica Scaglione, Gallão, Jonas Eduardo, Torres, Dayana Ferreira, Chagas-Jr, Amazonas, Horta, Lília, Carpio-Díaz, Yesenia Margarita, López-Orozco, Carlos Mario, Borja-Arrieta, Ricardo, Araujo, Paula Beatriz, Taiti, Stefano & Bichuette, Maria Elina, 2023, Shedding light into Brazilian subterranean isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea): expanding distribution data and describing new taxa, Zoosystema 45 (19), pp. 531-599 : 543

Genus Novamundoniscus Schultz, 1995

Novamundoniscus Schultz, 1995: 406 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Phalloniscus vandeli Lemos de Castro, 1960 , by original designation (see Schmidt & Leistikow 2004).

DIAGNOSIS. — After Schultz (1995): animals of reduced size (2.4- 6 mm); dorsal surface smooth covered with fan-shaped scale-setae; pereonites 1-7 with one line of noduli laterales per side, d/c coordinates almost on same line, b/c coordinates gradually decreasing; glandular pores sparse along lateral margins of pereonites, pleonites 3-5, and uropod protopod and exopod (visible under high magnification); cephalon with lateral lobes well-developed, suprantennal line present, frontal line absent; eyes of 5-15 ommatidia (sometimes absent); pleon outline continuous with that of pereonite 7; telson triangular; antennula of three articles, distal article bearing aesthetascs in lateral rows; antennal flagellum of three articles, apical organ short; mandibles with molar penicil dicothomized, left mandible with 2+1 penicils, right mandible with 1+1 penicils; maxillula outer endite of 4+3-5 teeth, inner set of teeth apically simple and/or cleft; maxilla bilobate; maxilliped endite without ornamentation; pereopod 1 carpus with transverse antenna-grooming brush, distal seta apically double-fringed; pleopod exopods without respiratory areas; male endopod 1 with distal half tapering.