A new family placement for the genusColombosciaVandel, 1972, with a description of a new species (Crustacea, Oniscidea, Scleropactidae)

Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) of the Botanical Garden of Cartagena “Guillermo Piсeres”, Colombia, with the description of three new species

“…To date, 39 species belonging to 23 genera and 12 families are known from Colombia, occurring from the supralittoral zone to the tropical and mountain forest areas [Richardson, 1912;Pearse, 1915;Vandel, 1972;Taiti et al, 1995;Leistikow, 2001a, b;Schmalfuss, 2003;Schmidt, 2007;Preciado, Martínez, 2014;López-Orozco et al, 2014, 2017. Among them, 17 species are known to the Caribbean region of Colombia, i.e.…”

Description of the terrestrial isopodmirtana costaricensisgen. et sp. n. from central America (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

“…In Colomboscia Vandel, 1972 the frontal lobe is directed upwards, bearing a slight carina. Colomboscia Vandel, 1972 was recently transferred to Scleropactidae by Taiti et al (1995) due to the shape of the uropods and the incomplete exoantennal volvation. After Schmalfuss (1980b), the Scleropactidae might have a common ancestor with Ischioscia-\ike members of the Philosciidae.…”

Revision of the Neotropical Scleropactidae (Crustacea: Oniscidea)

“…Taiti, Allspach & Ferrara (1995) transferred the genus Colomboscia Vandel, 1972 from the ‘Bathytropidae’ to the Scleropactidae; their arguments are discussed below. Vandel (1972) had described the genus Colomboscia and placed it in the Bathytropidae, based solely on the similarity of the tergal and cephalic tuberculation.…”

“…The transverse furrow (character 4) was earlier believed to be an autapomorphy of the genus Scleropactes (Schmalfuss, 1980). Later, Colomboscia was transferred from the Bathytropidae to the Scleropactidae, and the furrow was regarded as a homologous structure in both genera (Taiti et al ., 1995). The present investigation revealed the presence of a similar furrow in nearly all Neotropical Scleropactidae that have eyes.…”