Philosciidae

Taxobox
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Isopoda
superfamilia = Oniscoidea
familia = Philosciidae
familia_authority = Kinahan, 1857
diversity_link = Philosciidae
diversity = c. 100 genera
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "See text"

Philosciidae are a family of isopods (woodlice). They occur almost everywhere on earth, with most species found in (sub)tropical America, Africa and Oceania, and only few in the Holarctic.

Genera

:"This list is complete for genera described until the end of 2001." [cite journal |quotes=no |author=Christian Schmidt & Andreas Leistikow |year=2004 |title=Catalogue of the terrestrial Isopoda (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea) |journal=Steenstrupia |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=1–118 |url=http://www.zmuc.dk/commonweb/JOURNALS/PDF/Vol28-1/Schmidt&Leistikow.pdf (all genera published until end of 2001)]

* "Abebaioscia" Vandel, 1974 — Panniki Cave, Nullabor Plain, South Australia (1 species)
* "Adeloscia" Vandel, 1977 — New Zealand (1 species)
* "Alboscia" Schultz, 1995 — Paraguay, southern Brazil (3 species)
* "Anaphiloscia" Racovitza, 1907 — Northwestern Mediterranean (2 species)
* "Anchiphiloscia" Stebbing, 1908 — Eastern Africa, Madagascar, Andaman Islands, Chagos Archipelago (18 species)
* "Andenoniscus" Verhoeff, 1941 — Peru, Panama (2 species)
* "Andricophiloscia" Vandel, 1973 — Eastern New Guinea (1 species)
* "Androdeloscia" Leistikow, 1999 — Tropical America (17 species)
* "Aphiloscia" Budde-Lund, 1908 — Eastern, southern Africa, Madagascar, islands of western Indian Ocean (19 species)
* "Araucoscia" Verhoeff, 1939 — Chile: Calbuco Island (1 species)
* "Arcangeloscia" Taiti & Ferrara, 1980 — Cameroon, Congo, Malawi (7 species)
* "Archaeoscia" Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Ashtonia" Vandel, 1974 — Australia (1 species)
* "Atlantoscia" Ferrara & Taiti, 1981 — Ascension Island, Florida, Brazil, Argentina, St. Helena (2 species)
* "Australophiloscia" Green, 1990 — Australia, Hawai'i, Tonga, Nomuka Iki Islands (3 species)
* "Baconaoscia" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Barnardoscia" Taiti & Ferrara, 1982 — South Africa (2 species)
* "Benthana" Budde-Lund — Brazil, Paraguay (15 species)
* "Benthanoides" Lemos de Castro, 1958 — Peru, Chile (3 species)
* "Benthanops" Barnard, 1932 — South Africa (1 species)
* "Benthanoscia" Lemos de Castro, 1958 — Brazil (1 species)
* "Burmoniscus" Collinge, 1914 — Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma, China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cameroon, Sao Tomé, Mozambique, Somalia, Pacific islands (65 species)
* "Caraiboscia" Vandel, 1968 — Galapagos, Venezuela (2 species)
* "Chaetophiloscia" Verhoeff, 1908 — Mediterranean (9 to 20 species)
* "Colombophiloscia" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (3 species)
* "Congophiloscia" Arcangeli, 1950 — Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Angola, Annobon Island (4 species)
* "Ctenoscia" Verhoeff, 1928 — Western Mediterranean (2 species)
* "Cubanophiloscia" Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Dekanoscia" Verhoeff, 1936 — India, cave (1 species)
* "Didima" Budde-Lund — Madagascar (1 species)
* "Ecuadoroniscus" Vandel, 1968 — Ecuador (1 species)
* "Erophiloscia" Vandel, 1972 — Colombia, Ecuador (4 species)
* "Eurygastor" Green, 1990 — Australia (2 species)
* "Floridoscia" Schultz & Johnson, 1984 — Southern Florida (1 species)
* "Gabunoscia" Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978 — Gabun (1 species)
* "Halophiloscia" Verhoff, 1908 — Mediterranean, Crimea, Bermuda, Canary Islands, USA, Argentina (6 or 7 species)
* "Hawaiioscia" Schultz, 1973 — Hawai'i (1 species)
* "Heroldia" Verhoeff, 1926 — New Caledonia (6 species)
* "Hoctunus" Mulaik, 1960 — Mexico (1 species)
* "Huntonia" Vandel, 1973 — Australia (1 species)
* "Isabelloscia" Vandel, 1973 — Salomon Archipelago (1 species)
* "Ischioscia" Verhoeff, 1928 — South America (12 species)
* "Javanoscia" Schultz, 1985 — Java (1 species)
* "Jimenezia" Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Laevophiloscia" Wahrberg, 1922 — Western Australia (9 species)
* "Leonoscia" Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1985 — Sierra Leone (1 species)
* "Lepidoniscus" Verhoeff, 1908 — Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Northern Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia (4 species)
* "Leucophiloscia" Vandel, 1973 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Loboscia" Schmidt, 1998 — Malaysia (1 species)
* "Metaprosekia" Leistikow, 2000 — Venezuela (1 species)
* "Metriogaster" Vandel, 1974 — Australia (1 species)
* "Microphiloscia" Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Mirtana" Leistikow, 1997 — Costa Rica (1 species)
* "Nahia" Budde-Lund — South Africa (1 species)
* "Nataloniscus" Ferrara & Taiti, 1985 — South Africa (1 species)
* "Nesoniscus" Verhoeff, 1926 — New Caledonia (2 species)
* "Nesophiloscia" Vandel, 1968 — Galapagos (1 species)
* "Okeaninoscia" Vandel, 1977 — Kermadec Archipelago (1 species)
* "Oniscomorphus" Jackson, 1938 — Rapa Nui (1 species)
* "Oniscophiloscia" Wahrberg, 1922 — Juan Fernández Islands and adjacent coast of Chile (4 species)
* "Oreades" Vandel, 1968 — Ecuador (1 species)
* "Oroscia" Verhoeff, 1926 — New Caledonia (2 species)
* "Palaioscia" Vandel, 1973 — New Guinea (1 species)
* "Papuaphiloscia" Vandel, 1970 — Bismarck Archipelago, China, Guadalcanal, Hawai'i, New Guinea, Japan, New Zealand (11 species)
* "Parachaetophiloscia" Cruz & Dalens, 1990 — Spain (1 species)
* "Paraguascia" Schultz, 1995 — Paraguay (1 species)
* "Parapacroscia" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Paraphiloscia" Stebbing, 1900 — Solomon Islands, Samoa, New Guinea (9 species)
* "Parischioscia" Lemos de Castro, 1967 — Guiana (1 species)
* "Pentoniscus" Richardson, 1913 — Costa Rica (4 species)
* "Perinetia" Barnard, 1958 — Madagascar (1 species)
* "Philoscia" Latreille, 1804 — Europe, Mediterranean (ca. 10 species)
* "Philoscina" Ferrara & Taiti, 1985 — South Africa (3 species)
* "Platyburmoniscus" Schmidt, 2000 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
* "Platycytoniscus" Herold, 1931 — Flores, Sri Lanka (2 species)
* "Pleopodoscia" Verhoeff, 1942 — East Africa (6 species)
* "Plumasicola" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Plymophiloscia" Wahrberg, 1922 — Australia, Tasmania (8 species)
* "Portoricoscia" Leistikow, 1999 — Puerto Rico (1 species)
* "Prosekia" Leistikow, 2001 — Venezuela (1 species)
* "Pseudophiloscia" Budde-Lund — Chile (3 species)
* "Pseudosetaphora" Ferrara & Taiti, 1986 — Seychelles (1 species)
* "Pseudotyphloscia" Verhoeff, 1928 — Sulawesi, West Java, Taiwan (1 species)
* "Puteoscia" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Quintanoscia" Leistikow, 2000 — Mexico (1 species)
* "Rostrophiloscia" Arcangeli, 1932 — Dominica (1 species)
* "Sechelloscia" Ferrara & Taiti, 1983 — Seychelles (1 species)
* "Serendibia" Manicastri & Taiti, 1987 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
* "Sinhaloscia" Manicastri & Taiti, 1987 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
* "Stenophiloscia" Verhoeff, 1908 — Dalmatia, Greece, Italy (6 species)
* "Stephenoscia" Vandel, 1977 — New Zealand (1 species)
* "Sulesoscia" Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Tenebrioscia" Schultz, 1985 — Java (1 species)
* "Thomasoniscus" Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
* "Tiroloscia" Verhoeff, 1926 — Italy, Spain (9 species)
* "Togoscia" Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1985 — Togo (1 species)
* "Tongoscia" Dalens, 1988 — Tonga (1 species)
* "Trichophiloscia" Arcangeli, 1950 — Sardinia (1 species)
* "Troglophiloscia" Brian, 1929 — Cuba, Mexico, Belize (3 species)
* "Tropicana" Manicastri & Taiti, 1987 — Hawai'i, Sri Lanka, Comoro Islands, Cameroon (1 species)
* "Tropiscia" Vandel, 1973 — Ecuador (1 species)
* "Vandelophiloscia" Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978 — Ivory Coast (1 species)
* "Verhoeffiella" Vandel, 1970 — New Caledonia (1 species)
* "Wahrbergia" Verhoeff, 1926 — New Caledonia (1 species)
* "Xiphoniscus" Vandel, 1968 — Ecuador (1 species)
* "Zebrascia" Verhoeff, 1942 — Ivory Coast, Bioko, Cameroon (2 species)

References

External links

* - List of described species up to 2004
* BugGuide: [http://bugguide.net/node/view/55262/bgpage Pictures of "Philoscia" species]