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752E9D0EFD66FF8DB192FE5BFA2A44F2.text	752E9D0EFD66FF8DB192FE5BFA2A44F2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Parakermania Vandel 1973	<div><p>Genus Parakermania Vandel, 1973</p> <p>Type species: Parakermania minima Vandel, 1973</p> <p>Diagnosis. Parakermania able to roll up into perfect ball, dorsum with distinct tubercles; head with short and stout antenna, cephalon with frontal shield slightly protruding over vertex; epimera of pereonites and pleonites curve outwards, and pereonites 2−7 with triangular epimera, pereonites 1 and 2 with small lobe and large tooth on ventral side, respectively; telson with quadrangular distal part, uropodal protopodite nearly trapezoidal, minute exopodites inserted dorsally on protopodite (Kwon &amp; Taiti 1993).</p> <p>Remarks. The relationships among the genus Parakermania and the other genera within the family Armadillidae are unknown. In morphology, the genus is close to Tuberillo Schultz, 1982 (Taiti et al. 1992). But it can be distinguished by the frontal shield protruding less over the vertex, the pereonites 2−7 with triangular epimera instead of quadrangular epimera, and the pereonite 1 with a small ventral lobe instead of a schisma (Kwon &amp; Taiti 1993).</p> <p>List of Parakermania species</p> <p>Parakermania minima Vandel, 1973. Parakermania minima Vandel, 1973: 142, figs. 109−110. Type locality: Dyaul Island, New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago. Distribution: Australia (New Ireland).</p> <p>Parakermania maculata Kwon &amp; Taiti, 1993. Parakermania maculata Kwon &amp; Taiti, 1993: 77, figs 315−324. Type locality: Qingdao, Hainan Island, China. Distribution. China (Hainan).</p> <p>Parakermania longa Hong, Wang &amp; Li, sp. nov. Distribution. China (Hainan).</p> <p>Key to Parakermania species</p> <p>1. Pereonites 1–6 with twelve long spine-shaped projections near lateral margin (Vandel 1973).................. P. minima</p> <p>- Pereonites 1–6 without spine-shaped projections............................................................ 2</p> <p>2. Pereonite 6 with two small round tubercles on outer sides (Kwon &amp; Taiti 1993).......................... P. maculata</p> <p>- Pereonite 6 with two thin and long ornamentations on outer sides, going beyond apex of telson (Fig. 1).... P. longa sp. nov.</p></div> 	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/752E9D0EFD66FF8DB192FE5BFA2A44F2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Hong, Xinkai;Wang, Yutao;Li, Weichun	Hong, Xinkai, Wang, Yutao, Li, Weichun (2022): A third species of Parakermania Vandel, 1973 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Armadillidae) from China. Zootaxa 5087 (3): 484-488, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.5
752E9D0EFD66FF8EB192FA01FC0946FA.text	752E9D0EFD66FF8EB192FA01FC0946FA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Parakermania longa Hong & Wang & Li 2022	<div><p>Parakermania longa sp. nov.</p> <p>Figs 1–2</p> <p>Holotype. Male, CHINA: Hainan Island, <a href="http://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=110.01667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=19.716667" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 110.01667/lat 19.716667)">Chengmai</a> (19°43′N, 110°01′E), a secondary broad-leaved forest near Road 303, 26.v.2021, leg. Yutao Wang, prep. slide nos. L20182 −20184. Paratypes. Three males, two females, same collection data as holotype.</p> <p>Diagnosis. Body with thin and long ornamentations on outer sides of pereonite 6, conspicuously reaching beyond apex of telson.</p> <p>Description. Body length of males 2.0–3.0 mm, of females 3.0– 3.5 mm. Body elliptic, able to roll up into ball; head white, pale yellow mixed with pale brown on cephalon and around ommatidia, cephalon with frontal shield slightly protruding over vertex; dorsum pale brown mixed with pale yellow; each pereonite with six tubercles except for pereonite 7 with three tubercles, outer tubercles on pereonite 6 developed into two thin and long ornamentations going beyond apex of telson, median tubercle on pereonite 7 enlarged into thumb-shaped projection; epimera of pereonite 1 round, pereonites 2−7 with triangular epimera (Fig. 1A–C); pereonites 1 and 2 with small lobe and large tooth on ventral side (Fig. 1D).</p> <p>Antennula composed of three articles, distal article bearing apical set of small aesthetascs (Fig. 2A). Antenna short and stout, second article of flagellum twice as long as first article (Fig. 2B).</p> <p>Mandibles with molar process reduces to single plumose seta (Fig. 2C, D). Maxillula with outer branch bearing 4+6 teeth, inner branch with two stout penicils (Fig. 2E). Maxilla distally bilobate, with inner lobe distinctly narrower than outer lobe (Fig. 2F). Maxilliped with three long setae on apical margin of endite, palp two-jointed (Fig. 2G).</p> <p>Pereopod 1 and 7 without particular modifications (Fig. 2H, I).</p> <p>Pleopods, sexual differentiation. Male pleopod 1 exopodite small bean-shaped, no visible respiratory structures (Fig. 2J); endopodite with broad basal part, narrowed towards apical tip, apex beak-shaped and covered with tiny spines (Fig. 2K). Pleopod 2 exopodite concave on outer margin, inner margin basally convex, narrowed towards apical tip (Fig. 2L); endopodite thin and long, distinctly longer than exopodite (Fig. 2M). Telson with nearly quadrangular distal part, distal part about half as wide as basal part, ending with convex apical margin; uropodal protopodite nearly trapezoidal, postero-lateral corners broadly rounded; minute exopodites inserted dorsally beneath small tooth (Fig. 2N, O).</p> <p>Distribution. China (Hainan).</p> <p>Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin longus = long, in reference to the species has two long ornamentations on the outer sides of the sixth pereonite.</p> <p>Remarks. This new species shares common derived characters with other two congeners (P. minima Vandel, 1973 and P. maculata Kwon &amp; Taiti, 1993) in having well-developed tubercles on dorsum of body, short and stout antenna, triangular epimera on pereonites 2−7, small lobe on ventrum of pereonite 1 and large ventral tooth on pereonite 2 (Fig. 1). But it can be distinguished from the latter species by 39 dorsal tubercles on pereonites, and two outer tubercles on pereonite 6 developed into thin and long ornamentations reaching beyond apex of telson (Fig. 1A–C). In P. minima, pereonites have 63 dorsal tubercles, and outer tubercles on pereonites 1–6 developed into long spine-shaped projections, but not reaching telson (Vandel 1973: fig. 109). In P. maculata, dorsum of pereonites covered with 60 small rounded tubercles (Kwon &amp; Taiti 1993: fig. 315).</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/752E9D0EFD66FF8EB192FA01FC0946FA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Hong, Xinkai;Wang, Yutao;Li, Weichun	Hong, Xinkai, Wang, Yutao, Li, Weichun (2022): A third species of Parakermania Vandel, 1973 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Armadillidae) from China. Zootaxa 5087 (3): 484-488, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.5
