Porcellio humberti Paulian de Félice, 1939

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 : 2119-2120

Porcellio humberti Paulian de Félice, 1939

( Figures 30 and 31 )

Porcellio Humberti Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 210 , Figures 70–74

Porcellio humberti ; Vandel, 1958a, p. 129; Vandel, 1958c, p. 445, Figures 1–3

Material examined

1 ♀, St. 4, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9546 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 7, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9547 ) ; 5 ♀♀, 1 juv., same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 29 September 2005 ( MZUF 9548 ) ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 12, leg. C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9549 ) ; 2 ♀♀, 3 juvs, St. 14, Phillyrea wood, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 27 September 2005 ( MZUF 9550 ) ; 5 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, St. 15, sieved ground near stream, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9551 ) ; 2 ♀♀, St. 16, along road margin under stones, leg. S. Taiti, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9552 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 18, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9553 ) ; 5 ♂♂, 11 ♀♀, St. 19, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9554 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 20, under stones along path to waterfall, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 2 May 2004 ( MZUF 9555 ) ; 4 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, St. 21, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 30 September 2005 ( MZUF 9556 ) ; 2 ♀♀, St. 24, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9557 ) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 25, under stones in meadow, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 ( MZUF 9558 ) ; 3 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀, St. 26, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 ( MZUF 9559 ) .

Previous Rif records

Mt Gurugu, near Melilla; Tétouan; Benitez, near Ceuta ( Vandel 1958 a, 1958c).

Distribution

Southern Spain and Morocco.

Remarks

Porcellio humberti was described by Paulian de Félice (1939) on specimens from Jebel Ayachi, in the High Atlas Range. Vandel (1958c) redescribed and partially illustrated the species, and added several localities in Morocco and southern Spain. A full set of figures of this species that integrate Vandel’ s redescription is here provided on specimens from St. 19.

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 30. Porcellio humberti from St. 19, ♂: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scaleseta; (C) cephalon, dorsal view; (D) cephalon, frontal view; (E) pereonite 4, right side; (F) pleonites 4, 5, telson and uropods; (G) antennule; (H) antenna.

Figure 31. Porcellio humberti from St. 19, ♂: (A) pereopod 1; (B) pereopod 7; (C) genital papilla and pleopod 1; (D) pleopod 2; (E) pleopod 3 exopod; (F) pleopod 4 exopod; (G) pleopod 5 exopod.