Armadillidium album Dollfus, 1887

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 : 2129

Armadillidium album Dollfus, 1887

Armadillidium album ; Colombini et al., 2008, p. 86

Material examined

2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, St. 4, under logs, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9569 ) .

Previous Rif records

Oued Laou ( Colombini et al. 2008).

Distribution

Atlantic coast of Europe, western and central Mediterranean as far East as Greece.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of A. album see Vandel (1962, p. 841, Figure 403) and Schmalfuss (2008, p. 154, Figures 1–12 ).

Figures

Figure 1. Trichoniscus microphthalmus sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) cephalon, frontal view; (D) pleonite 5, telson and left uropod; (E) antennule; (F) antenna; (G) right mandible; (H) left mandible.

Figure 2. Trichoniscus microphthalmus sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) maxillule; (B) maxilla; (C) maxilliped. Paratype ♂: (D) pereopod 1; (E) pereopod 7; (F) pleopod 1; (G) pleopod 2.

Figure 3. Graeconiscus thermophilus from St. 8, ♂: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) pereonites 6, 7 and pleon, ventral view; (C) pereopod 7.

Figure 4. Graeconiscus thermophilus from St. 8, ♀: (A) pleonite 5, telson and uropods; (B) antennule; (C) antenna; (D) right mandible; (E) left mandible; (F) maxillule; (G) maxilla; (H) maxilliped.

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

Figure 6. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scaleseta; (C) co-ordinates of noduli laterals; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) left side of pereon showing disposition of noduli laterales; (G) pereonite 1, left side; (H) pleonites 4, 5, telson and uropods; (I) antennule.

Figure 7. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♀: (A) antenna; (B) left mandible; (C) right mandible; (D) maxillule; (E) maxilla; (F) maxilliped.

Figure 8. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♂: (A) pereopod 1; (B) pereopod 7; (C) pleopod 1 (specimen 4.5 mm long); (D) genital papilla and pleopod 1 (specimen 4.0 mm long); (E) pleopod 2; (F) pleopod 3 exopod; (G) pleopod 4 exopod; (H) pleopod 5 exopod.

Figure 9. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) co-ordinates of noduli laterals; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) right side of pereon showing disposition of noduli laterales; (G) pleonites 3–5, telson and uropods; (H) antennule; (I) antenna.

Figure 10. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) left mandible; (B) right mandible; (C) maxillule; (D) maxilla; (E) maxilliped.

Figure 11. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♂: (A) antenna; (B) pereopod 1; (C) pereopod 7; (D) genital papilla and pleopod 1; (E) pleopod 2; (F) pleopod 3 exopod; (G) pleopod 4 exopod; (H) pleopod 5 exopod.

Figure 12. Bathytropa rifensis sp. nov. from St. 15, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) scale-seta on posterior margins of segments; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) pleonite 5, telson and right uropod; (G) antennule; (H) antenna.