A new genus and two new species of Pudeoniscidae Lemos de Castro 1973 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Brazil

ABSTRACT

To date, the family Pudeoniscidae includes six species and three genera, Pudeoniscus, Brasiloniscus and Iansaoniscus, with distributions restricted to Brazil. Here, we redefine the family Pudeoniscidae based on the discovery of a new genus and two new species, Oxossioniscus pataxo sp. nov. and Oxossioniscus akoko sp. nov., from the Brazilian Atlantic forest in the state of Bahia, and on the examination of Pudeoniscus birabeni and Pudeoniscus obscurus. Moreover, P. obscurus is re-described and new records are provided for P. birabeni.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A0123730-C623-49CE-8665-AE17FDDF994A.

KEYWORDS:

• Terrestrial isopods
• Pudeoniscus
• Oxossioniscus gen. nov
• Brazilian Atlantic Forest
• Neotropical

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Profs Marcos Tavares and Maria José from MZUSP for assisting with depositing material; to Dr Giuseppe Montesanto, Università di Pisa (Pisa, Italy) for assistance with the scientific illustrations; to ICMBio (Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade), SisBio (Sistema de Autorização e Informação em Biodiversidade) for the licence to collect (licence number 25716); to CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) for the PhD scholarship and postdoctoral scholarship granted to ISC-F (MCT/CNPq/MEC/CAPES/PROTAX 562202/2010-2 and PDE 204468/2014-0); CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Florence, Italy) for hosting ISC-F during his postdoctoral studies; to CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior) for the PNPD scholarship to ISC-F (CAPES/PNPD/UFCG/CTRN/PPGRN 201713705-5) and PhD scholarships granted to JTL and GMC.

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