Catalogue of genera of the terrestrial Isopoda

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Species: 6.
Distribution: China, Korea, Japan.
Remarks: Arcangeli (1952) instituted Lucasioides
as a subgenus of Protracheoniscus. Vandel
(1969, “South Korea”) elevated it to generic
rank. Kwon (1993) validated the name by
designating a type species.
Lucasius Kinahan, 1859
Family: Porcellionidae.
Type species: Porcellio myrmecophilus Lucas,
1853 (m).
Locality: Algeria, Medeah, in the nest of “Myrmica
testaceo-pilosa”.
Species: 6.
Distribution: Madeira, Italy, Sardinia, Rhodos,
Algeria, Tunisia.
Lusitoniscus Vandel, 1946
Subgenus of Porcellionides Miers, 1878.
Type species: Porcellio cingendus Kinahan, 1857 (o, m).
Locality: Ireland, Dublin.
Species: 2.
Remarks: The name Lusitoniscus was introduced by Vandel
(1946) as subgenus of Metoponorthus, to include M.
cingendus (Kinahan, 1857). The new species M. mirabilis
Vandel, 1946 was assigned to the subgenus only with
doubt, so M. cingendus is regarded as type by monotypy.
Vandel (1962) also mentioned M. cingendus as type
species.
Lyprobius Budde-Lund, 1879
Nomen nudum.
Remarks: The new genus name was introduced together
with the new species name L. pusillus, both without any
description.
Lyprobius Budde-Lund, 1885
Synonym of Agabiformius?
Type species: Not designated.
Species originally included:
1. Lyprobius pusillus (Budde-Lund, 1885): California: Sacramento
(1 damaged specimen, coll. Schaufuss).
2. Lyprobius lentus (Budde-Lund, 1885): Algeria, Msila
(leg. Simon).
3. Lyprobius modestus (Budde-Lund, 1885): central America,
“Corientes” (2 syntypes, ZMUC CRU-1586).
Remarks: Budde-Lund (1885) instituted the genus Lyprobius
for 3 species of small, Porcellio-shaped isopods. He
subsequently (Budde-Lund 1908 b) excluded all species
except for: Lyprobius pusillus Budde-Lund, 1885; this
is not equivalent to the designation of that species as
the type species (ICZN Art. 69.4), therefore the typespecies
is still not designated. The type specimens of
L. pusillus seem to have been stored in the SMTD and
were destroyed during World War II.
C. SCHMIDT & A. LEISTIKOW
Macaroniscus Karaman, 1961
Subgenus of Epironiscellus Strouhal, 1954.
Type species: Epironiscellus (Macaroniscus) multicostatus
Karaman, 1961.
Locality: Macedonia, near T. Veles, cave Makarovac (25
� and 40 �, leg. G. Karaman & M. Petkovi, 17.vii.1958;
syntypes).
Macedoniscus Buturovic, 1954
Synonym of Alpioniscus Racovitza, 1908.
Type species: Macedoniscus vardarensis Buturovic, 1954
(m).
Locality: Macedonia, Pecina (cave) Bela Voda, near Demir
Kapije, on the way to Djevdjelija (8 �, 20 �, leg. St.
Karaman & T. Petkovski, 07.vii.1953).
Remarks: Reduced to a synonym of Alpioniscus by Tabacaru
(1993b).
Macrotelsonia Arcangeli, 1939c
Family: Tendosphaeridae.
Type species: Echinarmadillidium strouhali
Frankenberger, 1938b (o, m).
Locality: Montenegro, cave “Studenacka pecina”
near Niksic (1 �, leg. Kratochvíl, 06.ix.
1936).
Synonym: Ctenodillium Frankenberger, 1940.
Madoniscus Paulian de Félice, 1950
Family: Trichoniscidae.
Type species: Madoniscus termitis Paulian de
Félice, 1950 (m).
Locality: Madagascar, Tampolo forest on the east
coast; in galleries of Eutermes nigrita Wasman,
associated with Coptotermes truncatus
Wasman (leg. Millot).
Madrasdillo Arcangeli, 1957
Family: Armadillidae.
Type species: Armadillo elevatus Verhoeff,
1936c (m).
Locality: India, Madras (� and �, exact number
not indicated, but referred to as “common”,
leg. S. Jones).
Maghreboniscus Vandel, 1959b
Unavailable name (ICZN Art. 13.3); Family: Spelaeoniscidae.
Type species: Not designated.
Species originally included:
1. Maghreboniscus palmetensis Vandel, 1959b: Morocco:
Foum el Hassane, dans le Djebel Bani, au nord de l’Oued
Draa, 492 m, dans la palmeraie (2 �, leg. Remy, 18.ix.
1953).
2. Maghreboniscus trapezoidalis Vandel, 1959b: Morocco,
Berguent, au sud d’Oujda, 910 m, jardin (1 �, leg. Remy,