Family ONISCIDAE Latreille, 1802

Hanoniscus orientalis

© Copyright from Vandel 1973.

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Introduction

Hanoniscus Budde-Lund is endemic to Australia and a closely-related genus, Phalloniscus Budde-Lund occurs in New Zealand (Bowley 1935; Schultz 1995). Tasmanoniscus Vandel, which has not been placed in any family, seems to be closer to the Oniscidae than it is to any other. Here it is unplaced in Oniscoidea.

Two New Zealand species of Phalloniscus have been erroneously recorded from Australia: P. kenepurensis (Chilton, 1901) and P. punctatus (Thomson, 1879) from Western Australia by Wahrberg (1922), both excluded by Bowley (1935); and P. punctatus from Tasmania by Thomson (1893), excluded by Green (1961).

Diagnosis

Animals do not conglobate. Pleonal epimera 3–5 large or of moderate size so that body outline is not, or scarcely, interrupted between pereon and pleon. Head with frontal line present or incomplete; supra-antennal line present, reduced or absent. Head with lateral lobes and sometimes a median lobe along frontal line. Antenna 2 flagellum with 3 articles. Without pleopodal lungs.

General References

Bowley, E.A. 1935. A survey of the oniscoid genus Phalloniscus Budde-Lund, with a description of new species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 21: 45-73

Chilton, C. 1901. The terrestrial Isopoda of New Zealand. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zool. 8: 99-152

Green, A.J.A. 1961. A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 258-365

Latreille, P.A. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Ouvrage faisant suite à l’histoire naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs sociétés savantes. Familles naturelles des genres. Tome troisième. Paris : F. Dufart xii + 13–467 + [1] pp. [An "X" (title page = 1802)]

Schultz, G.A. 1995. Terrestrial isopod crustaceans (Oniscidea) from Paraguay, with definition of a new family. Recueil Zoologique Suisse 102: 387-424

Thomson, G.M. 1879. New Zealand Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 11: 230-248

Thomson, G.M. 1893. Notes on Tasmanian Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 45-76

Wahrberg, R. 1922. Terrestre Isopoden aus Australien. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910–13. No. 30. Arkiv för Zoologi 15: 1-298

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