Lucasius pallidus
Authors/Creators
- 1. Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Florence, Italy;
- 2. Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Description
Lucasius pallidus (Budde-Lund, 1885)
Material examined
5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, St. 8, 220 m, leg. S. Taiti and C. Rossano, 28 April 2004 (MZUF 9484); 26 ♂♂, 18 ♀♀, 2 juvs, same locality and collectors, 28 September 2005 (MZUF 9485); 11 ♂♂, 21 ♀♀, St. 25, under stones in meadow, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 (MZUF 9486); 2 ♀♀, St. 26, cork-oak wood, leg. S. Taiti, 30 April 2004 (MZUF 9487).
Distribution
Morocco, southern Spain, southern France, Corsica, Sardinia and Tuscany. New record for the Rif region.
Remarks
In Morocco two species of Lucasius have been recorded: L. myrmecophilus Kinahan, 1859, originally described from Algeria (Kinahan 1859); and L. pallidus, originally described from southern France, Sicily, southern Spain and Algeria. In Sicily this species was confused with Mica tardus (Budde-Lund, 1885) and, according to Caruso and Di Maio (1996), it is not present. Achouri et al. (2008c) cite L. myrmecophilus from the Oued Laou basin. The specimens from the same area examined by us definitely fit the description of L. pallidus, but the differences of this species with L. myrmecophilus are still unclear. According to Vandel (1962) and Schmölzer (1965) L. myrmecophilus differs from L. pallidus in having a smooth instead of granulated dorsum, but in the original description by Kinahan (1859) and in the redescription by Budde-Lund (1885, p. 135) it is clearly stated that the dorsum of the body is granulated. Therefore there is a possibility that the two species are synonymous, but a re-examination of the type material of L. myrmecophilus is necessary to confirm this hypothesis.
For diagnostic characters of L. pallidus see Vandel (1962, p. 651, Figure 321).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MZUF
- Material sample ID
- MZUF 9484 , MZUF 9485 , MZUF 9486 , MZUF 9487
- Event date
- 2004-04-28 , 2004-04-30 , 2005-09-28
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-04-28 , 2004-04-30 , 2005-09-28
- Scientific name authorship
- Budde-Lund
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Porcellionidae
- Genus
- Lucasius
- Species
- pallidus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lucasius pallidus (Budde-Lund, 1885) sec. Taiti & Rossano, 2015
References
- Budde-Lund G. 1885. Crustacea Isopoda terrestria per familias et genera et species descripta. Copenhagen: Nielsen and Lydiche; 319 p.
- Kinahan J. 1859. On the genus Platyarthrus (Brandt); with notices of allied undescribed genera. Proc Dubl Univ Zool Bot Assoc. 1: 188 - 201, pl. 19.
- Caruso D, Di Maio MC. 1996. The genus Mica Budde-Lund, 1908 and a redescription of Mica tardus (Budde-Lund, 1885) (Isopoda, Oniscidea). Crustaceana. 69: 241 - 250.
- Achouri MS, Medini-Bouaziz L, Hamaied S, Charfi-Cheikhrouha F. 2008 c. Diversity of terrestrial isopods at the Oued Laou region (Northeast of Morocco): preliminary results. In: Bayed A, Ater M, editors. Du Bassin versant vers la mer: analyse multidisciplinaire pour une gestion durable. Trav Inst Sci Rabat (Ser Gen). 5: 75 - 79.
- Vandel A. 1962. Isopodes terrestres (Deuxieme partie). Faune Fr. 66: 417 - 931.
- Schmolzer K. 1965. Ordnung Isopoda (Landasseln). Bestimmungsbucher zur Bodenfauna Europas. 4 and 5: 1 - 468.