Published April 20, 2026 | Version v1
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Chaetophiloscia Verhoeff 1908

  • 1. MUCBO-Museu Balear de Ciències Naturals, Sóller (Mallorca), Balearic Islands, Spain & Interdisciplinary Ecology Group, University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 2. Servei de Fauna i Flora, Departament de Territori, Habitatge i Transició Ecològica, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  • 3. Departament de Biologia Animal (Zoologia), Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Description

Genus

ChaetophilosciaVerhoeff, 1908

Parachaetophiloscia Cruz & Dalens, 1990, p. 94, new synonymy.

Type species.

Philoscia elongata Dollfus, 1884.

Diagnosis.

Cephalon without frontal line and with suprantennal line; left mandible with 2 + 1 penicils; right mandible with 1 + 1 penicils; both mandibles with a dichotomized molar process; maxilla inner branch lacking posterior point; maxilliped endite without penicil; simple scale-setae; presence of epimeral grooves; dactyli of pereopods with outer claw and interungual seta not enlarged; pleotelson triangular; and uropods with endopod and exopod inserted at the same level. (see also Schmalfuss 1990 b, p. 170).

Notes

Published as part of Garcia, Lluc, Miralles-Núñez, Adrià & Cruz-Suárez, Antonio, 2026, Subterranean Philosciidae from Spain with the description of a new genus and two new species (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea), pp. 1-28 in Subterranean Biology 56 on pages 1-28, DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.56.180999

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References

  • Schmalfuss H (1990 b) Die Landisopoden (Oniscidea) Griechenlands. 11. Beitrag: Gattung Chaetophiloscia (Philosciidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 97: 169–193. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.79731