[PDF] Top 20 Changes in cuticle structure during growth in two terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Isopoda: Oniscidea)

... as in other arthropods, the crustacean exoskeleton does not grow ...new cuticle and shed the old one, growing, developing and regenerating damaged structures in a series of ...molts. ... See full document

... (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Plathyarthridae) from ...found during recent surveys in Araranguá, Morro dos Conventos, in the State of Santa Catarina, is described ... See full document

... RESUMO. Os Os Os Os Os estágios estágios estágios estágios estágios de de de de de manca manca manca manca de manca de de de de P PP PPorcellio orcellio orcellio orcellio orcellio dilatatus dilatatus Br dilatatus ... See full document

... distributed in 14 genera. In Brazil, there are 16 species recorded in the north and southeast ...Here, two new species of Scleropactidae are described based on material collected in ... See full document

... Terrestrial isopods are the Crustacea best adapted to terrestrial ...found in forests, fields, deserts and caves, and occupy a wide variety of microhabitats, including the interiors of ... See full document

... subterranean Oniscidea in Portugal has been neglected for nearly 70 years, but recent investigations have revealed high ...the terrestrial isopods known from caves of mainland Portugal, ... See full document

... Diagnostic characters Maximum dimensions: 18.5 × 8.0 mm. Coloration: Dark bluish gray, juveniles lighter. Cuticular structures: Tergites granulated (Fig. 26). Frontal shield from behind one third as high as it is wide, ... See full document

... five terrestrial isopod species at Caraseu, belonging to several ecological categories (Radu 1983, 1985): paludicolous (Hyloniscus riparius), sylvan (Trachelipus arcuatus), euritope (Trachelipus rathkii) and ... See full document

... the cuticle surface of some arthropods may compromise long- term studies ( ...2001). In addition, the mark can also be removed by the animal itself, due to chemical constituents of the cuticle (Lok ... See full document

... preservation in ethanol ...as in Figure ...as in Figures 5C and D; gland pores not ...subequal in length, medial article smallest, distal article bearing four aesthetascs, one subapical pair ... See full document

... female in figures 73 and 72, ...(six in T. acuta); 2) exite of maxillulae with seven undivided teeth (two of inner group bifid in ...(narrowed in inner side in ...crest in ... See full document

... and growth rates among cohorts in a natural ...born in the spring took ...born in late summer and autumn took 3.5 months. In Brazil, A RAUJO & B OND -B UCKUP (2004) studied a ... See full document

... Os embriões, no marsúpio, ficam protegidos das adversidades do meio; empilham-se uns sobre os outros mas podem ser, facilmente, percebidos através da translucidez dos oostegitos (Fig[r] ... See full document

... originally occupied over one million square kilometers of the country’s territory, is now reduced to about 12% of its original range (R IBEIRO et al. 2009). That percentage represents both rela- tively well-preserved and ... See full document

... hooks in each longitudinal row are similar, the oncotaxy and general appearance of the proboscides are different: nine rooted ante- rior hooks and 12 posterior, rootless spines in our specimen and seven ... See full document

... of two articles subequal in length, distal article with two rows of two aesthetascs each, apical organ as long as second article of flagellum with simple and short free ...bearing two ... See full document

... both in small and large fragments of woodland (see Figure 2), Porcellium collicola was most abundant in the small fragments of woodland irrespective of the vegetation at these ...occurrence in some ... See full document

... Description. Body length: ♂ 4.5 mm, ♀ 5 mm. Body colorless, slightly convex (Fig. 8A). Dorsal surface covered with fan-shaped scale-setae (Fig. 8B); pereon epimera with glandular pores; small noduli laterales (Fig. 8E) ... See full document

... 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 ... See full document

... Leptotrichus panzeri Southern Europe Porcellio dilatatus Southwestern Europe Porcellio laevis Southern Europe Porcellio scaber Western Europe Porcellio spinicornis Wetsern [r] ... See full document