Porcellio riffensis Caruso and Di Maio, 1990

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

Porcellio riffensis Caruso and Di Maio, 1990

Porcellio hoffmannseggi nemethi ; Vandel, 1958a, p. 129

Porcellio riffensis Caruso and Di Maio, 1990 , p. 204, Figures 6–10 ; Schmalfuss, 2003, p. 234

Material examined

1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, 3 juvs, St. 7, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 29 September 2005 ( MZUF 9529 ) ; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 10, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9530 ) ; 6 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 12, leg. C. Rossano, 26 April 2004 ( MZUF 9531 ) ; 1 ♂, 7 ♀♀, St. 14, Phillyrea wood, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 27 September 2005 ( MZUF 9532 ) ; 6 ♂♂, 7 ♀♀, St. 16, along road margin under stones, leg. S. Taiti, 28 April 2004 ( MZUF 9533 ) ; 1 ♀, St. 18, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9534 ) ; 9 ♂♂, 12 ♀♀, St. 19, leg. S. Taiti, 29 April 2004 ( MZUF 9535 ) .

Previous Rif records

Einzoren, south of Villa Sanjurjo; Issaguen ( Vandel 1958a; Caruso and Di Maio 1990); Bab Taza; Cedreta, 17 km from Ketama; Bab Berred ( Caruso and Di Maio 1990).

Distribution

Northern Morocco.

Remarks

For diagnostic characters of P. riffensis see Caruso and Di Maio (1990, p. 204, Figures 6–10 ).

Figures

Figure 6. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scaleseta; (C) co-ordinates of noduli laterals; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) left side of pereon showing disposition of noduli laterales; (G) pereonite 1, left side; (H) pleonites 4, 5, telson and uropods; (I) antennule.

Figure 7. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♀: (A) antenna; (B) left mandible; (C) right mandible; (D) maxillule; (E) maxilla; (F) maxilliped.

Figure 8. Ctenoscia minima from St. 14, ♂: (A) pereopod 1; (B) pereopod 7; (C) pleopod 1 (specimen 4.5 mm long); (D) genital papilla and pleopod 1 (specimen 4.0 mm long); (E) pleopod 2; (F) pleopod 3 exopod; (G) pleopod 4 exopod; (H) pleopod 5 exopod.

Figure 9. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) adult specimen, dorsal view; (B) dorsal scale-seta; (C) co-ordinates of noduli laterals; (D) cephalon, dorsal view; (E) cephalon, frontal view; (F) right side of pereon showing disposition of noduli laterales; (G) pleonites 3–5, telson and uropods; (H) antennule; (I) antenna.

Figure 10. Paractenoscia cavernicola sp. nov. from St. 8, paratype ♀: (A) left mandible; (B) right mandible; (C) maxillule; (D) maxilla; (E) maxilliped.