Armadillidium assimile Budde-Lund, 1885

Cifuentes, Julio, Robla, Jairo & Garcia, Lluc, 2024, Description of Armadillidium boalense sp. nov. from northern Spain, with remarks and a key of the genus in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Armadillidiidae), Zootaxa 5497 (1), pp. 83-99 : 94

Armadillidium assimile Budde-Lund, 1885

Material examined

Spain • 1♂; Asturias, Ribadeva, Pimiango ; 6 Aug. 1984; J. Cifuentes leg; in an Erica L. shrubland close to the coast ; JC202. • 6 specs; Asturias, Quirós, Altu de la Cobertoria (Gamoniteiru) ; 43º11′13.26′′ N, 5º55′18.91′′ W; 1764 m a.s.l.; 17 Sep. 2021; J. Robla leg.; hand collected under embedded big stones; CLLG .

Remarks and ecology

This species is present in western Europe. It has been occasionally recorded in northern Spain and several Mediterranean coastal and inland provinces. This species had already been recorded in Asturias ( Schmölzer 1955, 1971; Cruz 1990; Vázquez-Felechosa & Anadón, 2001) ( Fig. 1A ). Here we provided two new localities, one representing one of the highest records of this species in the Iberian Peninsula (ca. 1800 m). Although it is said that this species tends to occur in humid and flooded areas like marshes, river areas or meadows ( Cruz 1993; Vandel 1962) or even anthropic areas like gardens ( Vandel 1962), specimens from Gamoniteiru were found in alpine meadows without shrub or tree vegetation under large stones strongly attached to the substrate and far from water sources.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A. Distribution of Armadillidium species in Asturias (red, within Spain seen in darker blue). B. Habitat of Armadillidium boalense sp. nov. in Os Chaos (Boal, Asturias). C. A more detailed photograph of the rocky wall where A. boalense sp. nov. specimens were found. D. Distribution of Armadillidium species in the group ‘pictum’ in northern Iberian Peninsula with the provinces with available data of northern Spain in gray. In both maps: New records (★) and bibliographic records (●). A. album (blue), A. assimile (orange), A. boalense sp. nov. (red), A. galiciense (green), A. nasatum (pink), A. pictum (purple), cf. A. pictum (purple?) and A. vulgare (black).