Porcellio echinatus Lucas, 1849

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 : 2118-2119

Porcellio echinatus Lucas, 1849

Porcellio (Euporcellio) echinatus ; Paulian de Félice, 1939, p. 198

Porcellio echinatus ; Dollfus, 1896, p. 532; Vandel, 1958a, p. 129; Achouri et al., 2008c, pp. 76–78

Material examined

2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 6, near well and wheat field, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9536 ) ; 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 7, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9537 ) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 29 September 2005 ( MZUF 9538 ) ; 2 ♀♀, St. 9, under stones in meadow, leg. S. Taiti, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9539 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 10, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9540 ) ; 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, St. 14, Phillyrea wood, leg. S. Taiti, 27 April 2004 ( MZUF 9541 ) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, same locality, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 27 September 2005 ( MZUF 9542 ) ; 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 19, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9543 ) ; 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, St. 20, under stones along path to waterfall, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 2 May 2004 ( MZUF 9544 ) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 26, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 ( MZUF 9545 ) .

Previous Rif records

Taxdirt, west of Melilla ( Vandel 1958a); Oued Laou region ( Achouri et al. 2008c).

Distribution

Southern Portugal, southern Spain, northern Morocco, and north-western Algeria.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of P. echinatus see Vandel (1946, p. 304, Figures 125–129).