A new species and first record of Pulmoniscus Leistikow, 2001 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Colombia

Carlos Mario López-Orozco,Yesenia Margarita Carpio-Díaz,Gabriel R Navas S,Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho

doi:10.1590/2358-2936e2017014

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Abstract

The family Philosciidae Kinahan, 1857 is one of the most diverse within the suborder Oniscidea, surpassed only by the Armadillidae Brandt, 1833 (Sfenthourakis and Taiti, 2015). Philosciidae includes approximately 600 species placed in 115 genera and it is widely distributed in Australia, southern Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas (Leistikow, 2001; Schmalfuss, 2003; Taiti and Schott e, 2016). Th is family constitutes one of the most important groups of terrestrial isopods in tropical and wetlands habitats (Leistikow, 2001). To date, the family is considered paraphyletic due to characteristics shared with the families Halophilosciidae Verhoeff , 1908 and Scleropactidae Verhoeff , 1938 (Leistikow, 2001; Schmidt, 2008).

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ZOOBANK http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2273A11D-AC31-4831-9A3B4639DBD39C4A aBstract A new species of Pulmoniscus Leistikow, 2001 from Department of Bolívar, Colombia, is described
ABstract A new species of Pulmoniscus Leistikow, 2001 from Department of Bolívar, Colombia, is described. It constitutes the first record of the genus for the country and for the continental portion of the Neotropics
The genus is mainly defined by the cephalon without lateral lobes, outer endite of maxillula with crown-shaped and 3-tiped apex teeth on outer set, pleopod exopods with monospiracular covered lungs (Leistikow, 2001)

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A new species and first record of BraZilian crustacean society Pulmoniscus Leistikow, 2001 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Colombia e-ISSN 2358-2936 www.scielo.br/nau www.crustacea.org.br. ZOOBANK http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2273A11D-AC31-4831-9A3B4639DBD39C4A aBstract A new species of Pulmoniscus Leistikow, 2001 from Department of Bolívar, Colombia, is described It constitutes the first record of the genus for the country and for the continental portion of the Neotropics. Philosciidae includes approximately 600 species placed in 115 genera and it is widely distributed in Australia, southern Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas (Leistikow, 2001; Schmalfuss, 2003; Taiti and Schotte, 2016) This family constitutes one of the most important groups of terrestrial isopods in tropical and wetlands habitats (Leistikow, 2001).

New species and first record of Pulmoniscus

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