Hemilepistus Explained
Hemilepistus is a genus of woodlice, created 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]
- Hemilepistus aphganicus Borutzky, 1958
- Hemilepistus buddelundi Borutzky, 1945
- Hemilepistus communis Borutzky, 1945
- Hemilepistus crenulatus (Pallas, 1771)
- Hemilepistus cristatus Budde-Lund, 1885
- Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885
- Hemilepistus fedtschenkoi (Uljanin, 1875)
- Hemilepistus heptneri Borutzky, 1945
- Hemilepistus klugii (Brandt, 1833)
- Hemilepistus magnus Borutzky, 1945
- Hemilepistus nodosus Budde-Lund, 1885
- Hemilepistus pavlovskii Borutzky, 1954
- Hemilepistus reaumuri (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
- Hemilepistus reductus Borutzky, 1945
- Hemilepistus rhinoceros Borutzky, 1958
- Hemilepistus ruderalis (Pallas, 1771)
- Hemilepistus russonovae Borutzky, 1951
- Hemilepistus schirasi Lincoln, 1970
- Hemilepistus zachvatkini Verhoeff, 1930
The species are all endemic to Central Asia, except H. reaumuri, which is found from Syria to Algeria.[2]
Notes and References
- Ghasem M. Kashani, Alireza Sari & Shidokht Hosseinie (Ostavani) . 2010 . Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran . . 2549 . 54–68 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2549.1.3 . PDF extract.
- World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version . Helmut Schmalfuss . 2003 . Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A . 654 . 1–341 . 2010-09-17 . 2009-02-24 . https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090224212510/http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf . dead .
