Dioscoridillo melanoleucos Ferrara & Taiti, 1996

Taiti, Stefano & Checcucci, Ilaria, 2009, New species and records of terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) from Socotra Island, Yemen, ZooKeys 31 (3), pp. 73-103 : 98

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.31.140

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:62840B5D-158B-46B8-99B7-C71B4259537A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790045

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3B7787EB-A148-A540-FF6B-FE2FFC903471

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scientific name

Dioscoridillo melanoleucos Ferrara & Taiti, 1996
status

 

Dioscoridillo melanoleucos Ferrara & Taiti, 1996 View in CoL

Dioscoridillo melanoleucos Ferrara & Taiti, 1996: 132 View in CoL , fig. 8; Taiti & Ferrara, 2004: 302, fig. 60, pl. 26.

Material examined. Socotra: many ♁♁ and ♀♀, Lem-chegeranit , 12°35'04.5"N 53°30'49.3"E, under stones in meadow near pool, 12.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF- 9274 GoogleMaps ; 5 ♁♁, 5 ♀♀, same data, NHCY ( MZUF) GoogleMaps ; 5 ♁♁, 3 ♀♀, Ma’lih , Fisreher, 12°37'38"N 53°30'42"E, along wadi, 690 m, 12.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti and A. K. Nasher, MZUF-9275 GoogleMaps ; 2 ♁♁, 2 ♀♀, same data, NHCY ( MZUF) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. These specimens and those from SW of Qeysoh cited in Taiti and Ferrara (2004) have an uniformly pale instead of grey colour (see pl. 26 in Taiti and Ferrara 2004) as in the populations from Nojid, Wadi Ayhaft, Diksam, Hagghier Mts and Momi, while all morphological characters are identical. As in the case of Socotroniscus sacciformis , a molecular analysis is necessary to confirm that the pale and grey forms belong to the same species.

Distribution. The species is endemic to Socotra Island.

MZUF

Museo Zoologico La Specola, Universita di Firenze

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Isopoda

Family

Eubelidae

Genus

Dioscoridillo

Loc

Dioscoridillo melanoleucos Ferrara & Taiti, 1996

Taiti, Stefano & Checcucci, Ilaria 2009
2009
Loc

Dioscoridillo melanoleucos

Taiti S & Ferrara F 2004: 302
Ferrara F & Taiti S 1996: 132
1996
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