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Biodiversity and Systematics • Nauplius 23 (2) • Jul-Dec 2015 • https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-64972015002324   copy

A new species of Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Platyarthridae) from Paraná caves, southern Brazil

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ABSTRACT

The genus Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908 in Brazil includes 22 described species, four of which occur in caves. The present work aims at describing the first cave species for the state of Paraná. Trichorhina kaingangi n. sp. was collected in Água Boa cave, municipally of Almirante Tamandaré, and Ermida Paiol do Alto cave, municipally of Adrianópolis, both in the Açungui karst area.

Key words:
Crustacea; terrestrial isopods; Açungui karst group; Neotropic

Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia Instituto de Biociências, UNESP, Campus Botucatu, Rua Professor Doutor Antônio Celso Wagner Zanin, 250 , Botucatu, SP, 18618-689 - Botucatu - SP - Brazil
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