Cristarmadillidium breuili, VANDEL, 1954

Recuero, Ernesto, Rodríguez-Flores, Paula C. & García-París, Mario, 2022, Homoplasy and morphological stasis revealed through multilocus phylogeny of new myrmecophilous species in Armadillidiidae (Isopoda: Oniscidea), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194 (4), pp. 1312-1340 : 1323

CRISTARMADILLIDIUM BREUILI VANDEL, 1954

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Cristarmadillidium breuili Vandel, 1954b: 63 .

Material examined: Three males and three females ( MNCN 20.04 /14391- MNCN 20.04 /14396), Spain, Comunidad Valenciana, Alicante Province, Ondara, Bolumini Cave , 38°49′55″N, 0°01′39″W, 15 July 2016 .

Remarks: This species is highly troglophilous, and it could represent a strict troglobiont organism, because it has never been collected outside cave systems ( Garcia, 2020). However, it does not show any typically troglobious morphological traits other than slight eye and pigment reductions ( Christiansen, 2012).

Figures

Figure 1. Map showing the sampling localities of Iberiarmadillidium pinicola (black stars), I. psammophilum (purple stars), I. sakura (white star), Cristarmadillidium breuili (black circle), Cristarmadillidium muricatum (red circles) and C. myrmecophilum (yellow circles). Habitus in vivo: A, I. pinicola from Valdemaqueda, Madrid; B, I. psammophilum from El Pardo, Madrid; C, C. myrmecophilum from Casas de Don Antonio, Cáceres; D, C. muricatum from Punta de Benimaquia Cave, Alicante; and E, C. breuili from Bolumini Cave, Alicante.

Figure 7. Scanning electron photomicrographs showing details of the telson of Iberiarmadillidium psammophilum (A), Iberiarmadillidium pinicola (B), Iberiarmadillidium sakura (C), Cristarmadillidium myrmecophilum (D) and Cristarmadillidium breuili (E).