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

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.1.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7F924C76-CE6D-4F31-9020-400800FAE279

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13685722

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Armadillidium assimile Budde-Lund, 1885
status

 

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Material examined

Spain • 1♂; Asturias, Ribadeva, Pimiango   GoogleMaps ; 6 Aug. 1984; J. Cifuentes leg; in an Erica L. shrubland close to the coast   GoogleMaps ; 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 GoogleMaps .

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 View FIGURE 1 ). 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.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

SubOrder

Oniscidea

Family

Armadillidiidae

Genus

Armadillidium

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