New species and new records of Benthana Budde-Lund, 1908 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae) from southern Brazil

Taxonomic revision of Brasiloniscus (Oniscidea, Pudeoniscidae) with description of a new species

“…In the last years, our knowledge of the diversity of terrestrial isopods from Brazil has increased considerably and, to date, ca 200 species are known, including species from the subterranean environment (Schmalfuss 2003;Araujo & Quadros 2005;Souza et al 2006Souza et al , 2010Souza et al , 2011Souza et al , 2015Araujo & Taiti 2007;Sokolowicz et al 2008;Campos-Filho & Araujo 2011a, 2011bCampos-Filho et al 2012, 2013a, 2013b, 2015a, 2015b, 2016, 2017a, 2017b, 2017cCosta et al 2014;Zimmermann et al 2015;Cardoso et al 2016).…”

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

“…Th irteen species are known from the state of Paraná, but none of them was recorded from caves. Only two species have been recorded exclusively from the state of Paraná: Benthana itaipuensis Campos-Filho and Araujo, 2011 from Foz do Iguaçu, and Benthana guayanas Campos-Filho, Costa and Araujo, 2013 from Morretes and São João da Graciosa (Souza-Kury, 1998;Campos-Filho and Araujo, 2011;Costa et al, 2014;Campos-Filho et al, 2013;2015).…”