Agnaridae is a family of woodlice. They were formerly considered part of the Trachelipodidae, but were moved from that family to Porcellionidae in 1989, and then placed as a separate family in 2003.
Genera
The family contains the following genera:
- Agnara <small>Budde-Lund, 1908</small> (20 species)
- Desertoniscus <small>Verhoeff, 1930</small> (13 species)
- Fossoniscus <small>Strouhal, 1965</small> (monotypic)
- Hemilepistoides <small>Borutzky, 1945</small> (monotypic)
- Hemilepistus <small>Budde-Lund, 1879</small> (15 species)
- Koreoniscus <small>Verhoeff, 1937</small> (2 species)
- Lucasioides <small>Kwon, 1993</small> (30 species)
- Mongoloniscus <small>Verhoeff, 1930</small> (17 species)
- Orthometopon <small>Verhoeff, 1917</small> (9 species)
- Phalaba <small>Budde-Lund, 1910</small> (3 species)
- Protracheoniscus <small>Verhoeff, 1917</small> (68 species)
- Pseudoagnara <small>Taiti & Ferrara, 2004</small> (2 species)
- Socotroniscus <small>Ferrara & Taiti, 1996</small> (monotypic)
- Tadzhikoniscus <small>Borutzky, 1976</small> (monotypic)
- Tritracheoniscus <small>Taiti & Manicastri, 1985</small> (monotypic)
References
Further reading
- Schotte, M.; Kensley, B. F.; Shilling, S. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA
- Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie A, 654: 1âÂÂ341., available online at http://www-alt.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stuttgart/pdf/a_pdf/A654.pdf