Chaetophiloscia walkeri ( Pearse, 1915 )

Aguiar, Ivanklin Soares Campos-Filho Giovanna Monticelli Cardoso José Otávio, 2018, Catalogue of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) from Brazil: an update with some considerations, Nauplius (e 2018038) 26, pp. 1-40 : 31

Chaetophiloscia walkeri ( Pearse, 1915)

Philoscia walkeri Pearse, 1915: 541 , fig. 4. – Leistikow, 2001c: 48.

Chaetophiloscia walkeri – Lemos de Castro, 1967: 319. – Souza-Kury, 1998: 661. – Leistikow and Wägele, 1999: 15. – Schmalfuss, 2003: 70.

Remarks. Species originally described from San Lorenzo, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, by Pearse (1915). Lemos de Castro (1967) placed this species into the genus Chaetophiloscia based on the dorsal colour of the specimens from the state of Pará (Acará and Belém). As mentioned by Leistikow (2001c), Lemos de Castro did not examine the type material of the species and his recognition was based in Pearse’s description; therefore, the author considered this species as a nomen dubium. Taking into account the current distribution of C. walkeri and the biogeography history of the South American Amazon (see Morrone, 2014; Dagosta and de Pinna, 2017), most probably this species belong to a different taxonomic entitiy.

Distribution. State of Pará ( Lemos de Castro, 1967).