World catalog of terrestrial isopods

DISTR. – Brazil: São Paulo region.
Microsphaeroniscus costatus Lemos de Castro, 1984
BIBL. – LEMOS DE CASTRO 1984b (figs.); SOUZA-KURY 1998; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Brazil: Rio de Janeiro region.
Microsphaeroniscus pallidus Lemos de Castro, 1984
BIBL. – LEMOS DE CASTRO 1984b (figs.); SOUZA-KURY 1998; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Brazil: region of Rio de Janeiro.
Microsphaeroniscus squamatus Lemos de Castro, 1984
BIBL. – LEMOS DE CASTRO 1984b (figs.); SOUZA-KURY 1998; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Brazil: region of Rio de Janeiro.
Microsphaeroniscus violaceus Lemos de Castro, 1984
BIBL. – LEMOS DE CASTRO 1984b (figs.); SOUZA-KURY 1998; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Brazil: region of São Paulo.
M i c r o t i t a n e t h e s Pljakić, 1977
Synocheta: family Trichoniscidae
Microtitanethes licodrensis Pljakić, 1977
BIBL. – PLJAKIĆ 1977 (figs.); TABACARU 1996a.
DISTR. – Serbia.
M i k t o n i s c u s Kesselyák, 1930
Synocheta: family Trichoniscidae
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Miktoniscus alabamensis Muchmore, 1964 = M. medcofi
Miktoniscus arcangelii Vandel, 1960
BIBL. – VANDEL 1960b (figs.), 1965e.
DISTR. – Madeira.
Miktoniscus barri Vandel, 1965
BIBL. – VANDEL 1965e (figs.); JASS & KLAUSMEIER 1990; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Eastern USA.
Miktoniscus bisetosus Vandel, 1946
BIBL. – VANDEL 1946b (figs.), 1949, 1950e (figs.), 1960b, 1965e; SCHMÖLZER 1955a, 1965b,
1971.
DISTR. – Northern Portugal; NW-Spain.
REMARKS. – Not a synonym of M. chavesi, as suggested by VANDEL 1956a (compare VANDEL
1960b).
Miktoniscus chavesi (Dollfus, 1889)
SYN. – M. madeirae, Trichoniscus c.
BIBL. – DOLLFUS 1889a; CARL 1908b (figs.); LEGRAND 1946 (p. 66); VANDEL 1946b, 1949,
1956a, 1960b (figs.), 1968a; ARCANGELI 1958a (figs.), 1958b; SCHMÖLZER 1965b.
DISTR. – Azores; Madeira.
Miktoniscus deharvengi Dalens, 1976
BIBL. – DALENS 1976 (figs.).
DISTR. – Southern Spain.
Miktoniscus grayi Schultz, 1962 = M. spinosus
Miktoniscus halophilus Blake, 1931 = M. spinosus
Miktoniscus humus Mulaik & Mulaik, 1942 = M. medcofi
Miktoniscus linearis (Patience, 1908)
SYN. – Trichoniscus l.
BIBL. – PATIENCE 1908a (figs.); KESSELYÁK 1930b (figs.); VANDEL 1933, 1946b, 1949, 1957e
(figs.), 1965e; GRUNER 1966a (figs.); HARDING & SUTTON 1985.
DISTR. – Only known from greenhouses in England and Germany.
Miktoniscus madeirae Arcangeli, 1958 = M. chavesi
Miktoniscus mammothensis Muchmore, 1964
BIBL. – MUCHMORE 1964 (figs.); VANDEL 1965e; SCHULTZ 1976.
DISTR. – USA: Kentucky.
Miktoniscus medcofi Van Name, 1940
SYN. – M. alabamensis, humus, ohioensis, Trichoniscus humus, veracrucensis
BIBL. – VAN NAME 1940, 1942; MULAIK & MULAIK 1942 (figs.); MULAIK 1960 (figs.); VANDEL
1949, 1965e (figs.); MUCHMORE 1957, 1964; LEMOS DE CASTRO 1971; SCHULTZ 1976 (figs.),
1982c; JASS & KLAUSMEIER 1990; BOYKO 1997; ARAUJO & BUENO 1998; SOUZA-KURY 1998;
LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Southeastern USA; southeastern Brazil (introduced?).
Miktoniscus melitensis Caruso & Lombardo, 1982
BIBL. – CARUSO & LOMBARDO 1982 (figs.); CARUSO et alii 1987.
DISTR. – Sicily; Malta.
Miktoniscus morganensis Schultz, 1976
BIBL. – VANDEL 1965e (sub medcofi, figs.); SCHULTZ 1976; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.