Review of Atlantoscia Ferrara & Taiti, 1981 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) with new records and new species

Taxonomic revision of Brasiloniscus (Oniscidea, Pudeoniscidae) with description of a new species

“…In the last years, our knowledge of the diversity of terrestrial isopods from Brazil has increased considerably and, to date, ca 200 species are known, including species from the subterranean environment (Schmalfuss 2003;Araujo & Quadros 2005;Souza et al 2006Souza et al , 2010Souza et al , 2011Souza et al , 2015Araujo & Taiti 2007;Sokolowicz et al 2008;Campos-Filho & Araujo 2011a, 2011bCampos-Filho et al 2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2015a, 2015b, 2016, 2017a, 2017b, 2017cCosta et al 2014;Zimmermann et al 2015;Cardoso et al 2016).…”

Integrative taxonomy reveals a new genus and new species of Philosciidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from the Neotropical region

“…We observed that, indeed, Atlantoscia is paraphyletic. Atlantoscia ituberasensis Campos-Filho, Lisboa & Araujo, 2013 and Atlantoscia rubromarginata Araujo & Leistikow, 1999 were placed in a new genus of terrestrial isopods, Paratlantoscia gen. nov., together with a new species described in the present study, Paratlantoscia robusta sp. nov.…”

“…Terrestrial isopods comprise the most successful colonizers of terrestrial environments among crustaceans and show morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations to this lifestyle (Richardson and Araujo 2015). For example, the development of the respiratory structures on the pleopod exopods was a key factor in Van Name, 1940(Campos-Filho et al 2013. Members of this genus differ in few morphological characteristics and are defined based mainly on the shape of the male pleopods (Campos-Filho et al 2013).…”

“…For example, the development of the respiratory structures on the pleopod exopods was a key factor in Van Name, 1940(Campos-Filho et al 2013. Members of this genus differ in few morphological characteristics and are defined based mainly on the shape of the male pleopods (Campos-Filho et al 2013). Recently, Zimmermann et al (2015) tried to overcome these taxonomic problems within Atlantoscia.…”

“…The authors demonstrated that using integrative taxonomy by coupling morphology and DNA sequences is an efficient strategy for delimitation of Atlantoscia species and to investigate their relationships. However, some issues still persist For instance, Atlantoscia rubromarginata Araujo & Leistikow, 1999 and Atlantoscia ituberasensis Campos-Filho, Lisboa & Araujo, 2013 are quite different from the other congeneric species and thus might not belong to this genus (Zimmermann et al 2015). Specifically, they are genetically and geographically distant and possess unique and specialized morphologies, with well developed respiratory areas in the pleopods (Campos-Filho et al 2013).…”