World catalog of terrestrial isopods

Mesarmadillo tuberculatus Dollfus, 1892
BIBL. – DOLLFUS 1892a (figs.); BUDDE-LUND 1899 (figs.); FERRARA & SCHMALFUSS 1976;
FERRARA & TAITI 1979.
DISTR. – Ivory Coast.
Mesarmadillo variegatus Richardson, 1907
BIBL. – RICHARDSON 1907a (figs.); FERRARA & SCHMALFUSS 1976; FERRARA & TAITI 1979.
DISTR. – Liberia: Monrovia.
M e s o d i l l o Verhoeff, 1926
Crinocheta: family Armadillidae
Mesodillo eremitus Verhoeff, 1926
BIBL. – VERHOEFF 1926a (figs.); JACKSON 1941.
DISTR. – New Caledonia.
M e s o n i s c u s Carl, 1906
Microcheta: family Mesoniscidae
REMARKS. – Species names other than alpicola and graniger see under synonyms of these
two species.
Mesoniscus alpicola (Heller, 1858)
SYN. – M. calcivagus, cavicolus, subterraneus, Schioedtia a., Titanethes a.
Orig. descr.: HELLER 1858 (Titanethes a.).
Descr., figs.: CARL 1906; BRIAN 1938b; VERHOEFF 1914b; RADU, V. G. 1950b; GRUNER 1966a.
Syst.: GRUNER & TABACARU 1963; GRUNER 1966a.
Phyl.: ERHARD 1995a, 1996, 1997, 1998b.
Morph., anat.: PESTA 1925; ARCANGELI 1939d; CHAPPUIS 1944; STROUHAL 1947d; RADU, V. V.
1949; SCHMÖLZER 1951a; VANDEL 1957g; GRUNER & TABACARU 1963; RADU, V. G. 1977a;
ERHARD 1995a, 1996, 1997.
Sense organs: LATTIN 1939b.
Respir.: MÖDLINGER 1931.
Ecol.: SCHMÖLZER 1952b; STROUHAL & FRANZ 1954; GRUNER 1966a.
Distr.: STROUHAL 1947d (A, map), 1951; SCHMÖLZER 1952b, 1974b (A); STROUHAL & FRANZ 1954
(A); FRANKENBERGER 1959 (former CS); GRUNER & TABACARU 1963 (map); GRUNER 1966a
(D).
Bibl.: GRUNER & TABACARU 1963; GRUNER 1966a.
DISTR. – Calcareous parts of the Alps in SE-Germany, Austria and NE-Italy.
Mesoniscus graniger (Frivaldsky, 1865)
SYN. – M. alpicola g., alpicola meridionalis, alpicola vulgaris, histrianorum, prenjanus,
triangulifer, Nematoniscus illyricus, prenjanus, triangulifer, Schioedtia g., Titanethes g.,
Trichoniscus prenjanus
BIBL. – FRIVALDSKY 1865; MEHELY 1932; VERHOEFF 1930c, 1933a; ARCANGELI 1939d; CHAPPUIS
1944; STROUHAL 1947d; RADU, V. G. 1950b, 1977a (figs.); FRANKENBERGER 1959; GRUNER &
TABACARU 1963 (figs.); KARAMAN 1966b; PLJAKIĆ 1970b, 1973, 1975, 1977; POTOČNIK 1979,
1980; POTOČNIK & NOVAK 1980; RUŞDEA 1982, 1984 (figs.); FLASAROVÁ 1994; ERHARD 1996
(figs.); FORRÓ & FARKAS 1998; GIURGINCA 2001a, 2001b; TABACARU & GIURGINCA 2001
(figs.), 2003 (figs.); MLEJNEK & DUCHAC 2001.
DISTR. – Slovenia; Serbia; Bosnia and Hercegovina; Slovakia; Romania.
Mesoporcellio laevis (Latreille, 1804) = Porcellio l.
M e t a p e r i s c y p h o p s Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1976
Crinocheta: family Eubelidae
Metaperiscyphops insulanus Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1976
BIBL. – FERRARA & SCHMALFUSS 1976 (figs.); FERRARA & TAITI 1979.
DISTR. – Gulf of Guinea: Principe Island.
M e t a p r o s e k i a Leistikow, 2000
Crinocheta: family Philosciidae
Metaprosekia nodilinearis Leistikow, 2000
BIBL. – LEISTIKOW 2000c (figs.).
DISTR. – Venezuela: eastern slope of the Andes.
M e t a s t e n o n i s c u s Taiti & Ferrara, 1982
Crinocheta: family Stenoniscidae
Metastenoniscus neotropicalis Paoletti & Stinner, 1989
BIBL. – PAOLETTI & STINNER 1989 (figs.); PAOLETTI 1989.
DISTR. – Venezuela: Falcon state, Parque Morrocoy.
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