Socotroniscus sacciformis Ferrara &amp; Taiti 1996
Creators: name: Taiti, Stefano
name: Checcucci, Ilaria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Malacostraca
Isopoda
Trachelipodidae
Socotroniscus
Socotroniscus sacciformis

description: <i>Socotroniscus sacciformis</i> Ferrara &amp; Taiti, 1996 <i>Socotroniscus sacciformis</i> Ferrara &amp; Taiti, 1996: 120, figs 1, 2; Ferrara &amp; Taiti, 2004: 287, pls 18–20. <b>Material examined.</b> Socotra: 5 ♁♁, 6 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 5 juvs, Arresh, Diehamt, 12°35'26.8"N 53°48'54.6"E, 18 m, 11.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9253; 4 ♁♁, 6 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data, NHCY (MZUF); 5 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 8 juvs, Lem-chegeranit, 12°35'04.5"N 53°30'49.3"E, under stones in meadow near pool, 12.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9254; 5 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data, NHCY (MZUF); 1 &amp;female;, 1 juv., Moeqehar, 12°32'39.5"N 53°34'46.2"E, 11.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9255; 4 ♁♁, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Kathar, 12°29'48.4"N 53°39'29.3"E, 11.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9256; 3 ♁♁, same data, NHCY (MZUF); 3 ♁♁, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Diksam, near Giniba Cave, 6.I.2003, leg. K. Van Damme, MZUF-9257; 1 ♁, 1 &amp;female;, 1 juv., along path to Hoq Cave, 12°35'40"N 54°21'00.6"E, 170 m, under stones, 14.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9259; 1 ♁, 1 &amp;female;, along path from Wadi Daneghan to Adho Dimelho, 12°35'22.4"N 54°02'58.3"E, 550 m, under stones near spring, 22.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9260; 9 ♁♁, Abelhen, 12°36'19"N 54°19'14"E, 28. VI.2004, leg. V. Bartolino, MZUF-9261; 2 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Momi, near Kazekas Cave, under stones, 12°33'20.9"N 54°18'23.1"E, 15.I.2003, ca. 500 m, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9258; 5 ♁♁, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data, MZUF-9262; 2 ♁♁, 4 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Wadi Ayhaft, 12°36'14.7"N 53°59'31.1"E, ca. 240 m, granite, under stones near wadi, 21.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9263; 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 18 juvs, same data, NHCY (MZUF); 4 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 2 juvs, Wadi Ayaft 12°36'38"N 53°58'42.9"E, ca. 170 m, limestone, under stones, 21.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9264; 8 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, Ma' lih, Hafoer-e-megademihan, 12°38'39.8"N 53°26'09.2"E, 510 m, 12.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti, MZUF-9266; 7 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data, NHCY (MZUF); 4 ♁♁, 9 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 12 juvs, Ma' lih, Fisreher, 12°37'38"N 53°30'42"E, 690 m, along wadi, 12.I.2003, leg. S. Taiti and A. K. Nasher, MZUF-9265; 2 ♁♁, 5 &amp;female;&amp;female;, same data, NHCY (MZUF). <b>Distribution.</b> Species endemic to the islands of Socotra, Darsa and Samha. <b>Remarks.</b> As pointed out in Taiti and Ferrara (2004) this species shows a great variability in the colour pattern and dorsal granulation, while the male characters are very stable in the different populations. The colour varies from pale cephalon, pereion, pleon epimera, telson and uropods, and dark pleonal tergites (Pl. 18 in Taiti and Ferrara 2004), to dark brown-grey with pale uropods and distal part of telson (Pl. 19 in Taiti and Ferrara 2004), to reddish as in some specimens from Samha (Pl. 20 in Taiti and Ferrara 2004) and western Socotra. The dark brown-grey specimens usually show more developed dorsal granulations. A molecular study of the different populations is necessary to find out if we are in front of a single variable species or to a complex of closely related species. <b>Family Eubelidae</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Taiti, Stefano &amp; Checcucci, Ilaria, 2009, New species and records of terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea, Oniscidea) from Socotra Island, Yemen, pp. 73-103 in ZooKeys 31 (3)</i> on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.31.140, http://zenodo.org/record/576582
description: {"references": ["Ferrara F, Taiti S (1996) Terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea) from Yemen. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15: 118 - 136.", "Taiti S, Ferrara F (2004) The terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of the Socotra Archipelago. Fauna of Arabia 20: 211 - 325."]}