Superfamily ONISCOIDEA Latreille, 1802

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Introduction

Described species from seven oniscoidean families have been recorded from Australia. A species of Olibrinus Budde-Lund, 1913 from another, Olibrinidae Budde-Lund, 1913, has been reported from Barrow Is., WA (Dalens 1993). The genus also occurs at Heron Is., Qld (Green, A.J.A., this work). Males are needed for specific identification.

The species Australoniscus springetti Vandel, 1973b cannot be placed in a known family or genus. Schmalfuss (1983) synonymised Australoniscus Vandel, 1973a (type species Australoniscus alticolus Vandel, 1973a) with Nagurus Holthuis, 1949 (Trachelipodidae) and believed its second species belonged in another family, as yet undecided.

Diagnosis

Typically without pleopodal lungs.

General References

Budde-Lund, G. 1913. The Percy Sladen Trust expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. IV. No. XXII. Terrestrial Isopoda particularly considered in relation to the distribution of the southern Indo-Pacific species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2nd Series Zoology 15: 367-394

Dalens, H. 1993. Two new genera of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) from north–western Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 16: 257-267

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)]

Schmalfuss, H. 1983. Terrestrial isopods from Nepal (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscoidea). Senckenbergiana Biologica 63: 373-392

Vandel, A. 1973a. Isopodes terrestres de Népal. Senckenbergiana Biologica 54: 111-128

Vandel, A. 1973b. Les Isopodes terrestres de l'Australie, étude systématique et biogéographique. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] (A) Zoologie 82: 1-171

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