Dryadillo

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Dryadillo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Isopoda
Family:
Armadillidae
Genus:
Dryadillo

Dryadillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was described in 1992 by Stefano Taiti, Franco Ferrera, and Do Heon Kwon. The type specimen for this species is a Dryadillo baliensis (Herold, 1931) from Baturiti [1] [2] [3] . There are currently 18 species in this genus.

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Description

Dryadillo sp. have a cephalon with a frontal lamina that does not protrude past the end of the cephalon. The side plates (epimeron) of their first segment do not have a thickened margin and their postlateral corner has a shallow cleft with the inner lobe much shorter than the outer one. The epimeron of their second segment have a semicircular ventral lobe.

Their telson has a conical shape and their uropod has a dorsal medial tooth and short exopod [3] .

Distribution

This genus has been found in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Several species appear to be endemic to islands in Indonesia [1] [4] . Some species in this genus are cave-dwelling and have troglomorphic traits [5] .

Species

References

  1. 1 2 Schmidt, Christian; Leistikow, Andreas (2004). "Catalogue of genera of the terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)". Steenstrupia. 28 (1): 30.
  2. ↑ Taiti, Stefano; Paoli, Pasquino; Franco, Ferrera (1998). "MORPHOLOGY, BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND ECOLOGY OF THE FAMILY ARMADILLIDAE (CRUSTACEA, ONISCIDEA)". Israel Journal of Zoology. 44: 291–301.
  3. 1 2 Taiti, S; Ferrara, F; Kwon, Dh (1992-06-01). "Terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea) from the Togian Islands, Sulawesi, Indonesia". Invertebrate Taxonomy. 6 (3): 787–842. doi:10.1071/IT9920787. ISSN   0818-0164.
  4. ↑ Schmalfuss, Helmut (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A, Nr. pp. 91–92.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  5. ↑ Le, Hung Anh; Tran, Duc Luong (2025-06-23). "Dryadillo longiantenna sp. nov., a new species of cave-dwelling terrestrial isopods (Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from a karstic island in Quang Ninh province, North Vietnam". Academia Journal of Biology. 47 (2): 75–87. doi:10.15625/2615-9023/21558. ISSN   2815-5920.
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