Stenophiloscia glarearum Verhoeff, 1908

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 : 2077

Stenophiloscia glarearum Verhoeff, 1908

Stenophiloscia glarearum ; Colombini et al., 2008, p. 86

Previous Rif records

Oued Laou ( Colombini et al. 2008).

Material examined

16 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, 2 juvs, St. 1, under debris on beach, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 28 September 2005 ( MZUF 9460 , 9461 ) ; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, St. 5, beach under stones, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9462 ) ; 11 ♂♂, 10 ♀♀, 1 juv., same locality and collectors, 1 October 2005 ( MZUF 9463 ) .

Distribution

Southern England, Canary Islands, Morocco, eastern Spain, Balearic Islands, southeast France, Italy, Malta, Croatia, and Ionian coasts of Greece ( Schmalfuss 2003).

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of S. glarearum see Vandel (1962, p. 488, Figures 244 and 245) and Ferrara and Taiti (1978, p. 22, Figure 5 ) as Halophiloscia (Stenophiloscia) zosterae Verhoeff, 1928 , junior synonym of S. glarearum (see Schmalfuss 2003).

Figures

Figure 5. Graeconiscus thermophilus from St. 8, ♂: (A) pereopod 1; (B) pereopod 7; (C) pleopod 1; (D) pleopod 2.