identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03C843431C2BFFCC94B058EEFEC8F4AF.text	03C843431C2BFFCC94B058EEFEC8F4AF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Armadillo mayeti Simon 1885	<div><p>Armadillo mayeti Simon, 1885</p><p>(Figures 1 (A–B), 2(A–C), 3(A–E), 4(A–E), 5(A–E), 6(A–C))</p><p>Material examined</p><p>Specimens collected at Soukra (Sfax) in sandy habitat near hedges under cladodes of Opuntia ficus-indica: 6 ♂♂ 14 ♀♀, 6/XI/2016; 2 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀, 8/IV/2018; 3 ♀♀, 5/I/2020; 5 ♀♀, 17/X/2020; 2 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀, 20/III/2021; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=9.586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=34.023" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 9.586/lat 34.023)">Regaiet</a> (35.005°N, 10.444°E) in stony habitat: 1 ♀, 19/ X/1996; Solb (33.185°N, 11.1110°E) in stony habitat: numerous specimens 26/III/1997; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 25/III/1998; <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=9.586&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=34.023" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 9.586/lat 34.023)">Oued ElAkarit</a> (34.023°N, 9.586°E) 2 ♀♀, 27/III/1997 .</p><p>Redescription (based on specimens from Soukra, Sfax)</p><p>Body length male 9.7 mm, female 8 mm. Convex body without elongated antenna and uropods; endoantennal conglobation (Figure 1 (A)).</p><p>Colouration uniform, light orange brown (Figure 1 (A, B)); pereopods and antenna unpigmented (Figure 1 (B)).</p><p>Tergal surface covered with fine granulations and short triangular scale-setae better visible under scanning microcope (Figures 2 (A), 6(C)).</p><p>Cephalon much wider than long; width:length ratio about 4:1; upper edge straight; devoid of antennal lobes, frontal line well defined, delimiting narrower frontal area; eyes with 10 ommatidia (Figure 2 (A)).</p><p>Pereion: pereonites I–VII epimera with noduli laterales inserted near posterior margins; pereonite I grooved on lateral margin on all its length, deeper in its posterior part; schisma deep with rounded lobes, inner lobe surpassing posterior margin of outer lobe. Epimera II welded forward and separated backward with V-shape clearly visible on live specimens, with inner lobe not surpassing posterior margin of epimera (Figure 2 (B)).</p><p>Pleon: Male pleonite I with caudal bi-lobed lamellar process on ventral position, triangular with pointed apex and covering the basis of genital papilla (Figure 2 (C)). Pleonites III–V (Figure 1 (A)) with rectangular epimera well developed. Five pairs of lungs on exopodites of pleopods not well discernable in preserved specimens.</p><p>Telson hourglass-shaped, broader than long, ratio about 2:1, basal part three-times longer than distal one, distal margin straight (Figure 6 (E)).</p><p>Antennula (Figure 3 (B)) with second article shorter than proximal and distal one; 9 aesthetacs inserted subapically on distal article.</p><p>Antennal peduncle with 5 articles, fifth article 1.25 longer than bi-articulated flagellum, distal article of flagellum nearly three-times as long as proximal (Figure 3 (A)).</p><p>Mandibles with molar penicil bearing several hairy branches, dense cushion of setae inserted between molar and incisor processes; right mandible bearing 9 + 1 penicils (Figure 4 (A)), left mandible 4 + 4 penicils (Figure 4 (B)). Maxillula (Figure 4 (D)) inner endite bearing 2 long penicils; outer endite composed of 4 + 6 simple teeth. Maxilla (Figure 4 (E)) apically bilobate bearing thin setae in distal margin; outer lobe slightly more than twice as wide as inner lobe. Maxilliped (Figure 4 (C)) basis rectangular; endite distal edge bearing 2 short setae; palp with 1 seta in the first article. Pereopods stout, not pigmented. Pereopod 1 (Figure 5 (A)) carpus with sternal brush of short setae, longitudinal antennal grooming brush; carpus 1 and 7 around 1.5-times longer than merus. Male pereopod 7 ischium without distinct specialisation, basis without distal sternal lobe (Figure 5 (B)). Stridulation apparatus visible only under scanning electron microscope on propodus of pereopods 4 and 5, forming one row of chain scales (Figure 6 (A, B)). Regarding its chemical composition, the scale contains numerous elements with a high carbon rate (58.71%) followed by calcium (19.63%), oxygen, aluminium, etc. (Table 1).</p><p>Male pleopod 1 exopodite short, nearly as long as wide, distal outer margin concave, triangular distal part with broad base and rounded tip (Figure 5 (C)); endopodite nearly three-times as long as exopodite with distal portion narrowed, slightly bent outwards (Figure 5 (D)). Pleopod 2 exopodite elongate, concave on outer margin, inner margin straight with elongated and narrowed distal portion; endopodite narrow, as long as exopodite, with tapering distal apical section (Figure 5 (E)).</p><p>Uropod covering gap between telson and pleon; protopod flattened with concave medial margin, distal part longer than wide with truncated apex; endopodite inserted ventrally, and covered with setae (Figure 3 (E)); exopodite tiny, inserted dorsally, near of narrowest part of telson (Figure 3 (C, D)).</p><p>Distribution</p><p>A.rmadillo mayeti is endemic to southern Tunisia. It is currently collected, in small numbers, at Soukra and Regayet (Sfax), Oued EL Akarit (Gabes) and Solb (Ben Guirdane). To date, Sfax governorate, represents the northern limit of its distribution.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C843431C2BFFCC94B058EEFEC8F4AF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia;Hamaied, Sonia;Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia, Hamaied, Sonia, Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia (2024): Redescription of the terrestrial isopod Armadillo mayeti Simon, 1885 and its comparison with Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816 from Tunisian populations. Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44): 1961-1977, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258
03C843431C2CFFC695CB5CBFFDC6F12F.text	03C843431C2CFFC695CB5CBFFDC6F12F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Armadillo officinalis Dumeril 1816	<div><p>Characters of A. officinalis suitable for diagnostic purposes: comparison with A. mayeti</p><p>(Figures 7 (A–G), 8(A–D), 9(A–D))</p><p>Armadillo officinalis is easily recognised by its dark grey-brown colour with yellow typical muscle spots, antenna, pleon, pleotelson, pereopods and uropods strongly pigmented (Figure 7 (A)), bigger size (male 12.5 mm; female 10.5 mm), smooth integument and more numerous (14) ommatidia (Figure 7 (C)); tergite pereonite I showing denser and smaller scale-setae (Figure 7 (C)) with two divergent lobes (Figure 7 (D)). It differs also from A. mayeti in having narrower antenna, with the fifth article 1.5-times as long as the flagellum (Figure 8 (A)), pereonite I with lateral groove deeper in anterior part, inner lobe not surpassing posterior margin of outer lobe (Figure 7 (B)), caudal lamellar process with rounded apex (Figure 7 (E)), telson nearly twice as wide as long, basal two-times longer than distal part (Figure 9 (A)), stridulation apparatus on propodus of pereopods 4 and 5 forming row of juxtaposed globular scales (Figure 7 (F, G)) having a less diverse chemical composition and richer in Ca (54.75%), followed by carbon rate (30.82%) and oxygen (Table 1). Pereopds 1 and 7 (Figure 8 (B, C)) are similar to those of A. mayeti, but the carpus 1 and 7 are nearly twice as long as the merus. Male pleopods 1 and 2 (Figure 9 (C, D)) of both species are quite similar.</p><p>Regarding the uropod, the protopod, nearly as long as wide, has a shorter distal part (Figure 8 (D)); the exopodite insertion is slightly posterior to the narrowest part of the telson (Figure 9 (B)) in A. officinalis .</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C843431C2CFFC695CB5CBFFDC6F12F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia;Hamaied, Sonia;Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia, Hamaied, Sonia, Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia (2024): Redescription of the terrestrial isopod Armadillo mayeti Simon, 1885 and its comparison with Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816 from Tunisian populations. Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44): 1961-1977, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258
03C843431C20FFC694135ACFFE15F6A5.text	03C843431C20FFC694135ACFFE15F6A5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Armadillo mayeti Simon 1885	<div><p>Comparison of A. mayeti and A. pseudomayeti</p><p>According to Mattern (1999), the name A. pseudomayeti implies that it shares morphological similarities with A. mayeti, including body pattern, granulated tegument, groove visible along all lateral margin of epimera I, straight distal margin of the pleotelson, maxilliped and endite maxilla structure. Armadillo mayeti differs from the A. pseudomayeti male type by the configuration of the pleopod exopodites, the absence of thick bristle brushes on the carpus of pereiopods 1 and 2, distal article of the flagellum about 2 times longer than proximal (vs 2.5 times in A. pseudomayeti), and 10–11 ommatidia (vs 6 in A. pseudomayeti).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C843431C20FFC694135ACFFE15F6A5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia;Hamaied, Sonia;Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia	Charfi-Cheikhrouha, Faouzia, Hamaied, Sonia, Medini-Bouaziz, Lamia (2024): Redescription of the terrestrial isopod Armadillo mayeti Simon, 1885 and its comparison with Armadillo officinalis Duméril, 1816 from Tunisian populations. Journal of Natural History 58 (41 - 44): 1961-1977, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2404258
