Anaphiloscia sicula Arcangeli, 1934

Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., Gonçalves, Fernando, Oromí, Pedro & Taiti, Stefano, 2015, The cavernicolous Oniscidea (Crustacea: Isopoda) of Portugal, European Journal of Taxonomy 161, pp. 1-61 : 39

Anaphiloscia sicula Arcangeli, 1934

Anaphiloscia sicula Arcangeli, 1934: 152 , figs 1–19.

Anaphiloscia sicula – Vandel 1946: 202, figs 50–59.

Records

Algueirão, Pechão; Algarão Menor do Paulino, Loulé, Algarve Province ( Vandel 1946).

Distribution

Portugal, Sicily, Ustica Island, Pantelleria Island and Malta.

Remarks

According to Schmalfuss (2003), this blind and depigmented species might be a junior synonym of Anaphiloscia simoni Racovitza, 1907 , described on the basis of a female specimen from a cave on Mallorca, Balearic Islands ( Racovitza 1907; Arcangeli 1934) and later recorded from western Spain, Morocco, Algeria and Libya (Cyrenaica). Vandel (1972) seems to have considered the two species as synonymous, without formally discussing the issue ( Schmalfuss 2003). Since no illustrations of the male characters of A. simoni exist, it is impossible to clarify this taxonomic problem without a re-examination of the type material. No specimens of this genus have been collected during our investigations.

Ecological notes

Epigean species.