Hemilepistus

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Hemilepistus
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Hemilepistus reaumuri
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Agnaridae
Genus: Hemilepistus
Budde-Lund, 1879

Hemilepistus is a genus of woodlice, first described by G. H. A. Budde-Lund in 1879 as a subgenus of Porcellio , but raised to the rank of genus by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1930. [1] It contains the following species: [2]

The species are all endemic to Central Asia, except H. reaumuri , which is found from Syria to Algeria. [2]

References

  1. Ghasem M. Kashani, Alireza Sari & Shidokht Hosseinie (Ostavani) (2010). "Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran" (PDF extract). Zootaxa . 2549: 54–68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2549.1.3.
  2. 1 2 Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 1–341. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2010-09-17.