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

Abstract

The genus Benthana includes 25 species with distribution in Brazil and Paraguay. In this paper we describe a new species from the state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, and provide new records for Benthana cairensis Sokolowicz, Araujo & Boelter, 2008, Benthana longicornis Verhoeff, 1941, Benthana moreirai Lemos de Castro, 1985, Benthana picta (Brandt, 1833), Benthana serrana Araujo & Lopes, 2003, and Benthana taeniata Araujo & Buckup, 1994.