World catalog of terrestrial isopods

Porcellionides melanurus (Budde-Lund, 1885) = Acaeroplastes m.
Porcellionides meleagris (Budde-Lund, 1885) = P. pruinosus
Porcellionides minutissimus (Boone, 1918)
SYN. – Philoscia m.
BIBL. – BOONE, P. 1918 (figs.); VAN NAME 1936 (p. 250, figs.); LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999.
DISTR. – Bahamas.
REMARKS. – Probably a synonym of P. pruinosus.
Porcellionides molleri (Verhoeff, 1901) = P. sexfasciatus
“Porcellionides” muelleri Arcangeli, 1926
BIBL. – ARCANGELI 1926a.
DISTR. – NW-Croatia.
REMARKS. – According to the description this is one of the species of Orthometopon
described from the area.
Porcellionides mulaiki Van Name, 1936 = “P.” virgatus
Porcellionides murisieri Arcangeli, 1924 = Trichophiloscia m.
Porcellionides myrmecophilus (Stein, 1859)
SYN. – Metoponorthus abanteorum, cattarensis, graevei, m., myrmicidarum, nitidus,
Porcellio cattarensis, m., steini, P. graevei, sikinius
BIBL. – STEIN 1859; BUDDE-LUND 1885; VERHOEFF 1918a; ARCANGELI 1922a, 1924e; JACKSON
1928a; STROUHAL 1929a, 1936b, 1937f, 1937g (figs.), 1954b; VANDEL 1962b (p. 623, figs.),
1967a, 1969c; RADU, V. G. 1951c (figs.); KARAMAN 1966b; SCHMALFUSS 1972a, 1972b,
1975b, 1979b, 1981a, 1999; CARUSO & LOMBARDO 1982; SCHMALFUSS & SCHAWALLER 1984;
CARUSO et alii 1987; TAITI & FERRARA 1989c; SFENTHOURAKIS 1992b, 1993a; MANICASTRI &
TAITI 1994; WARBURG & HORNUNG 1999; SCHMALFUSS et alii 2004.
DISTR. – Mediterranean region, also Romania.
Porcellionides nigricans (Brandt, 1833)
SYN. – Metoponorthus n., Porcellio limbatus, n.
BIBL. – BRANDT 1833; BUDDE-LUND 1885.
DISTR. – Unknown.
Porcellionides nigrobrunneus (Budde-Lund, 1896) = P. pruinosus
Porcellionides nitidus (Radu, 1951) = P. myrmecophilus
Porcellionides olivarum (Verhoeff, 1928)
SYN. – Metoponorthus o.
BIBL. – VERHOEFF 1928a (figs.); SCHMÖLZER 1965b; ARGANO et alii 1995.
DISTR. – NW-Italy.
Porcellionides parcus (Budde-Lund, 1885)
SYN. – Metoponorthus p.
BIBL. – BUDDE-LUND 1885; BORUTZKY 1972b; JEPPESEN 2000.
DISTR. – “Algeria”.
Porcellionides peregrinus (Budde-Lund, 1885)
SYN. – Metoponorthus p.
BIBL. – BUDDE-LUND 1885, 1894; JEPPESEN 2000.
DISTR. – ?Burma.
Porcellionides pica (Dollfus, 1892)
SYN. – Metoponorthus p.
BIBL. – DOLLFUS 1892c (figs.).
DISTR. – Near East, around Dead Sea.
Porcellionides planus (Budde-Lund, 1885) = Orthometopon p.
Porcellionides politulus (Budde-Lund, 1885)
SYN. – Metoponorthus p.
BIBL. – BUDDE-LUND 1885; BORUTZKY 1972b; JEPPESEN 2000.
DISTR. – Indonesia: Sumatra.
Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt, 1833)
SYN. – Metoponorthus anatolicus, nigrobrunneus, p., swammerdami, Porcellio epirotes,
flavovittatus, frontalis, jelskii, maculicornis, neozelandicus, p., schwencki, uniformis,
zealandicus, P. bagnalli, meleagris, nigrobrunneus, swammerdami, nigrobrunneus
Orig. descr.: BRANDT 1833 (Porcellio p.).
Descr.: VANDEL 1962b; GRUNER 1966a.
Figs.: SARS 1898; CARL 1908a; VANDEL 1962b; GRUNER 1966a.
Syst.: VERHOEFF 1951a; VANDEL 1962b; GRUNER 1966a; VERHOEFF & STROUHAL 1967; SCHMALFUSS
& FERRARA 1978; FERRARA & TAITI 1979; TAITI & HARDING 1985.
Phyl.: MATTERN 2003.
Fossil: BAAS 1982.
Morph.: VANDEL 1925b, 1943, 1946b; UNWIN 1932; LATTIN 1939a; SHIMOIZUMI 1951, 1952a,
1952b, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961; MENON et alii 1969; SCHMALFUSS 1972a; GARTHWAITE
& SASSAMAN 1985.
Anat.: SHIMOIZUMI 1951, 1952a, 1952b, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1961; ALIKHAN 1968c.
Nervous system: SATIJA et alii 1967.
Sense organs: ABRAHAM & WOLSKY 1930b.
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