Hemilepistus

Hemilepistus
Hemilepistus reaumuri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Agnaridae
Genus:
Budde-Lund, 1879

Hemilepistus is a genus of woodlice, first described by G. H. A. Budde-Lund in 1879 as a subgenus of Porcellio, but raised to the rank of genus by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1930.[1] It contains the following species:[2]

  • Hemilepistus aphganicus Borutzky, 1958
  • Hemilepistus buddelundi Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus communis Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus crenulatus (Pallas, 1771)
  • Hemilepistus cristatus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus fedtschenkoi (Uljanin, 1875)
  • Hemilepistus heptneri Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus klugii (Brandt, 1833)
  • Hemilepistus magnus Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus nodosus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus pavlovskii Borutzky, 1954
  • Hemilepistus reaumuri (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
  • Hemilepistus reductus Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus rhinoceros Borutzky, 1958
  • Hemilepistus ruderalis (Pallas, 1771)
  • Hemilepistus russonovae Borutzky, 1951
  • Hemilepistus schirasi Lincoln, 1970
  • Hemilepistus zachvatkini Verhoeff, 1930

The species are all endemic to Central Asia, except H. reaumuri, which is found from Syria to Algeria.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ghasem M. Kashani, Alireza Sari & Shidokht Hosseinie (Ostavani) (2010). "Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran" (PDF extract). Zootaxa. 2549: 54–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2549.1.3.
  2. ^ a b Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 1–341. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2010-09-17.


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