Armadillo mayeti, Simon, 1885

Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia, Hamaied, Sonia & Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia, 2024, Redescription of the terrestrial isopod Armadillo mayeti Simon, 1885 and its comparison with Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816 from Tunisian populations, Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44), pp. 1961-1977 : 1970

Comparison of A. mayeti and A. pseudomayeti

According to Mattern (1999), the name A. pseudomayeti implies that it shares morphological similarities with A. mayeti , including body pattern, granulated tegument, groove visible along all lateral margin of epimera I, straight distal margin of the pleotelson, maxilliped and endite maxilla structure. Armadillo mayeti differs from the A. pseudomayeti male type by the configuration of the pleopod exopodites, the absence of thick bristle brushes on the carpus of pereiopods 1 and 2, distal article of the flagellum about 2 times longer than proximal (vs 2.5 times in A. pseudomayeti ), and 10–11 ommatidia (vs 6 in A. pseudomayeti ).