Description of Mica iberica sp. nov. and Porcellio cibioi sp. nov., two new terrestrial isopods previously confused with Porcellio ingenuus Budde-Lund, 1885 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Porcellionidae)

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Lluc Garcia

[eng] Two new Iberian species of terrestrial Isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of the family
Porcellionidae are described. The specimens come from scientific collections
preserved at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid and at the Centro
Iberoamericano de la Biodiversidad of the University of Alicante (Spain). These had
previously been identified as Porcellio ingenuus Budde-Lund, 1885, and published
under that name in various scientific papers. A re-examination of these specimens
and their comparison with the holotype of P. ingenuus, located in the Zoological
Museum of the Moscow State University (Russia), has allowed them to be described
as new species, assigned respectively to the genera Mica Budde-Lund, 1908 and
Porcellio Latreille, 1804. Mica iberica sp. nov. comes from Priego (Cuenca) and is
the second known species of this genus. Porcellio cibioi sp.nov. was collected in
Salamanca and is closely related to Porcellio scaber Latreille, 1804. In this paper we
also illustrate and describe the type-specimen of P. ingenuus briefly, a species
described in the 19th century based on a single female specimen from Lisbon
(Portugal).

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Garcia, Lluc. “Description of Mica iberica sp. nov. and Porcellio cibioi sp. nov., two new terrestrial isopods previously confused with Porcellio ingenuus Budde-Lund, 1885 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Porcellionidae)”. Bolletí de la Societat d’Història Natural de les Balears, vol.VOL 63, pp. 159-73, https://raco.cat/index.php/BolletiSHNBalears/article/view/385135.

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