Abstract
In the present study, Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885 is reported from Iran for the first time, redescribed and its diagnostic characters are figured. This species reveals a high variability in morphological characters. The division of the species at the subspecific level can not be supported anymore. This species differs from other species of the genus by the unique shape of male pleopod-endopodite I.
Highlights
Budde-Lund (1879) created Hemilepistus as a subgenus of the genus Porcellio Latreille, 1804. Verhoeff (1930) raised it to the generic level and divided it into two subgenera, Hemilepistus and Desertellio, based on absence or presence of a frontal line between the profrons and the vertex
Kashani et al (2010) reported five species of the subgenus Hemilepistus from Iran and this is the first record of the subgenus Desertellio from this region
Hemilepistus elongatus was described by Budde-Lund (1885) on the basis of one female specimen from Taschburun in “Transcaucasus”
Summary
Budde-Lund (1879) created Hemilepistus as a subgenus of the genus Porcellio Latreille, 1804. Verhoeff (1930) raised it to the generic level and divided it into two subgenera, Hemilepistus and Desertellio, based on absence or presence of a frontal line between the profrons and the vertex. Kashani et al (2010) reported five species of the subgenus Hemilepistus from Iran and this is the first record of the subgenus Desertellio from this region. Hemilepistus elongatus was described by Budde-Lund (1885) on the basis of one female specimen from Taschburun in “Transcaucasus”. Borutzky (1945) reported this species from Caucasus and later he (Borutzky1955) described the new subspecies H. elongatus transcaspius from Turkmenistan.
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