Armadillidium vulgare ( Latreille, 1804 )

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 : 2130

Armadillidium vulgare ( Latreille, 1804)

Armadillidium vulgare ; Dollfus, 1896, p. 530; Dollfus, 1898, p. 134; Verhoeff, 1938, p. 67; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 212; Vandel, 1958a, p. 130; Achouri et al., 2008c, pp. 76–78; Colombini et al., 2008, p. 86

Armadillidium cinereum ; Arcangeli, 1932, p. 225

Material examined

1 ♀, St. 3, under stones, leg. C. Rossano, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9571 ) ; 3 ♀♀, St. 4, dune under stones, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9572 ) ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 5, beach under stones, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 May 2004 ( MZUF 9573 ) ; 3 ♂♂, same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 1 October 2005 ( MZUF 9574 ) ; 1 ♂, 9 ♀♀, St. 6, near well and wheat field, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9575 ) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, St. 7, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 29 September 2005 ( MZUF 9576 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 14, Phillyrea wood, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9577 ) ; 5 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, St. 15, sieved ground near stream, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9578 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 23, under stones, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 ( MZUF 9579 ) .

Previous Rif records

Benitez, near Ceuta ( Vandel 1958a); Oued Laou region ( Achouri et al. 2008c); Oued Laou ( Colombini et al. 2008).

Distribution

Cosmopolitan species of Mediterranean origin.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of A. vulgare see Vandel (1962, p. 826, Figures 397, 398) and Gruner (1966, p. 320, Figures 251, 252).