Eluma, Budde-Lund, 1885

Cifuentes, Julio & Da Silva, Luis P., 2023, The genus Eluma in the Iberian Peninsula, with the description of a new terrestrial isopod: Eluma matae sp. nov. (Oniscidea, Armadillidiidae, Eluminae), European Journal of Taxonomy 860 (1), pp. 27-41 : 36

Key to the species of the genus Eluma

The genus Eluma currently includes four species that can be distinguished with the help of the following dichotomic key:

1. Integuments without hair like structures and with granulations ............... E. tuberculata Cruz, 1991

– Integuments with hair like structures and without granulations …................................................... 2

2. Male pereopod 7 with protrusions on ischium and merus ........................... E. caelata ( Miers, 1877)

– Male pereopod 7 with protrusions only on ischium ......................................................................... 3

3. Integuments with scale-setae long and triangular, male exopod I with short and rounded inner tip. ..................................................................................................... E. praticola Taiti & Rossano, 2015

– Integuments with scale-setae long triangular, rectangular and mace shaped, male exopod I with long and sickle shaped inner tip ...................................................................................... E. matae sp. nov.