Ctenorillo Verhoeff, 1942

Carpio-Díaz, Yesenia M., López-Orozco, Carlos Mario, Borja-Arrieta, Ricardo, Gutierrez-Estrada, Miguel, Campos-Filho, Ivanklin Soares, Sfenthourakis, Spyros, Taiti, Stefano, Moreno, Jhon Cesar Neita, Bermúdez, Adriana, Navas-S., Gabriel R. & Bichuette, Maria Elina, 2023, The genus Ctenorillo Verhoeff, 1942 (Oniscidea, Armadillidae) from Colombia: new records, new species, and conservation comments, Tropical Zoology (trop. Zool.) 36 (3 - 4), pp. 53-84 : 55

Genus Ctenorillo Verhoeff, 1942

Type species: Ctenorillo buddelundi Verhoeff, 1942 [= Ctenorillo regulus ( Van Name, 1920) ], by monotypy (see Schmidt and Leistikow 2004).

Remarks

To date, the genus Ctenorillo Verhoeff, 1942 comprises 15 species: C. ausseli Dollfus, 1893 from the Canary Islands; C. bananae ( Van Name, 1920) from Angola, Cameroon and Congo; C. dazai from Colombia; C. fagei ( Paulian de Félice, 1941) from Ivory Coast; C. ferrarai Campos-Filho, Araujo & Taiti, 2014 from Brazil; C. gabunensis ( Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983) from Gabon; C. guinensis ( Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983) from Guinea; C. kenyensis Schmölzer, 1974 from Tanzania and Uganda; C. legai ( Arcangeli, 1941) from Ethiopia; C. meyeri Taiti, 2018 from South Africa; C. mineri ( Van Name, 1936) from Guyana and Venezuela; C. parituberculatus ( Taiti & Ferrara, 1987) from Malawi; C. regulus ( Van Name, 1920) from Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Zaire; C. strinatii ( Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1983) from Congo; and C. tuberosus ( Budde-Lund, 1904) from Brazil and Haiti ( Boyko et al. 2023b).

The genus was recently redefined by Carpio-Díaz et al. (2018). As mentioned by Campos-Filho et al. (2014) and Taiti (2018b), the best taxonomic characteristics to distinguish the species of the genus are the number and arrangement of the dorsal tubercles and bosses of the cephalon, pereon, and pleon.