Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816

Taiti, Stefano & Rossano, Claudia, 2015, Terrestrial isopods from the Oued Laou basin, north-eastern Morocco (Crustacea: Oniscidea), with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species, Journal of Natural History 49 (33), pp. 2067-2138 : 2131

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2015.1009512
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DCBF3103-1463-4A32-9BC0-A4CFE8B762AE
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4337178
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F88793-6B1F-6426-39C5-FF51FB12FAD6
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scientific name	Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816
status

Treatment

Armadillo officinalis ; Dollfus, 1896, p. 527; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 212; Vandel, 1958a, p. 130; Achouri et al., 2008c, pp. 76–78

Material examined

6 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, St. 2, under stones at base of cliff, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9580 View Materials ) ; 1 ♀, St. 7, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9581 View Materials ) ; 6 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 29 September 2005 ( MZUF 9582 View Materials ) ; 5 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, 2 juvs, St. 10, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9583 View Materials ) ; 1 ♂, 5 ♀♀, St. 11, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9584 View Materials ) ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, St. 12, leg. C. Rossano, 26 April 2004; ( MZUF 9585 View Materials ) 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 14, Phillyrea wood, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9586 View Materials ) ; 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, 1 juv., same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 27 September 2005 ( MZUF 9587 View Materials ) ; 9 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, 6 juvs, St. 15, sieved ground near stream, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9588 View Materials ) ; 6 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, St. 16, along road margin under stones, leg. S. Taiti, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9589 View Materials ) ; 2 ♂♂, 9 ♀♀, St. 19, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9590 View Materials ) ; 4 ♀♀, St. 20, under stones along path to waterfall, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 2 May 2004 ( MZUF 9591 View Materials ) ; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 21, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 30 September 2005 ( MZUF 9592 View Materials ) ; 1 ♀, St. 23, under stones, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 ( MZUF 9593 View Materials ) .

Previous Rif records

Ixmoart and Mt Gurugu, near Melilla; Isla de Alhucemas; Tétouan; Benitez, near Ceuta ( Vandel 1958a); Oued Laou region ( Achouri et al. 2008c).

Distribution

Mediterranean basin, Morocco and Portugal.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of A. officinalis see Vandel (1962, p. 855, Figures 408, 409).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Malacostraca
Order	Isopoda
Family	Armadillidiidae
Genus	Armadillo