Hemilepistus schirasi

Hemilepistus schirasi
A Shirasi woodlouse on parched desert soil.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Trachelipodidae
Genus: Hemilepistus
Species: H. schirasi
Binomial name
Hemilepistus schirasi
Lincoln, 1970 [1]

Hemilepistus schirasi is a species of woodlouse that lives in and around the deserts of central and southern Iran.[2] It can be distinguished from other species of Hemilepistus in Iran by the pattern of tubercles on the head. H. schirasi has six large tubercles in a semicircle, and rows of three tubercles extending to the outside corners of the head; other species have more tubercles, in different arrangements.[2]

References

External identifiers for Hemilepistus schirasi
Encyclopedia of Life 318774
ITIS 595334
WoRMS 260604
  1. R. J. Lincoln (1970). "A review of the species of Hemilepistus s. str. Budde-Lund, 1885 (Isopoda, Porcellionidae)". Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Zoology) 20 (4): 111–130.
  2. 1 2 Ghasem M. Kashani, Alireza Sari & Shidokht Hosseinie (Ostavani) (2010). "Terrestrial isopods of the subgenus Hemilepistus (Hemilepistus) Budde-Lund, 1879 (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Iran" (PDF extract). Zootaxa 2549: 54–68.


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