Philosciidae
Encyclopedia
Philosciidae are a family of woodlice
Woodlouse
A woodlouse is a crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs...

 (terrestrial isopod crustacean
Crustacean
Crustaceans form a very large group of arthropods, usually treated as a subphylum, which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. The 50,000 described species range in size from Stygotantulus stocki at , to the Japanese spider crab with a leg span...

s). They occur almost everywhere on earth, with most species found in (sub)tropical America
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...

, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

 and Oceania
Oceania
Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

, and only a few in the Holarctic
Holarctic
The Holarctic ecozone refers to the habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world as a whole. This region is divided into the Palearctic, consisting of Northern Africa and all of Eurasia, with the exception of Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, and the Nearctic,...

.

Genera

This list is complete for genera described until the end of 2001 .
  • Abebaioscia Vandel, 1974 — Panniki Cave, Nullarbor Plain
    Nullarbor Plain
    The Nullarbor Plain is part of the area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country of southern Australia, located on the Great Australian Bight coast with the Great Victoria Desert to its north. It is the world's largest single piece of limestone, and occupies an area of about...

    , South Australia
    South Australia
    South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

     (1 species)
  • Adeloscia Vandel, 1977New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

     (1 species)
  • Alboscia Schultz, 1995Paraguay
    Paraguay
    Paraguay , officially the Republic of Paraguay , is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. Paraguay lies on both banks of the Paraguay River, which runs through the center of the...

    , southern Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

     (3 species)
  • Anaphiloscia Racovitza, 1907 — Northwestern Mediterranean (2 species)
  • Anchiphiloscia Stebbing, 1908 — Eastern Africa
    Africa
    Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

    , Madagascar
    Madagascar
    The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

    , Andaman Islands
    Andaman Islands
    The Andaman Islands are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west, and Burma , to the north and east...

    , Chagos Archipelago
    Chagos Archipelago
    The Chagos Archipelago , is a group of seven atolls comprising more than 60 individual tropical islands in the Indian Ocean; situated some due south of the Maldives archipelago. This chain of islands are the southernmost archipelago of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge a long submarine mountain range...

     (18 species)
  • Andenoniscus Verhoeff, 1941Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

    , Panama
    Panama
    Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

     (2 species)
  • Andricophiloscia Vandel, 1973 — Eastern New Guinea
    New Guinea
    New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...

     (1 species)
  • Androdeloscia Leistikow, 1999 — Tropical America (17 species)
  • Aphiloscia Budde-Lund, 1908 — Eastern, southern Africa, Madagascar, islands of western Indian Ocean
    Indian Ocean
    The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

     (19 species)
  • Araucoscia Verhoeff, 1939Chile
    Chile
    Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

    : Calbuco Island
    Calbuco Island
    Calbuco Island is an island in the commune of Calbuco, Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, Chile. The city of Calbuco is on the island. The island is separated from the mainland by Calbuco Channel....

     (1 species)
  • Arcangeloscia Taiti & Ferrara, 1980Cameroon
    Cameroon
    Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...

    , Congo
    Kingdom of Kongo
    The Kingdom of Kongo was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what are now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, and the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

    , Malawi
    Malawi
    The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

     (7 species)
  • Archaeoscia Vandel, 1973Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

     (1 species)
  • Ashtonia Vandel, 1974 — Australia (1 species)
  • Atlantoscia Ferrara & Taiti, 1981Ascension Island
    Ascension Island
    Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, around from the coast of Africa and from the coast of South America, which is roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa...

    , Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

    , Brazil, Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

    , St. Helena (2 species)
  • Australophiloscia Green, 1990 — Australia, Hawai'i, Tonga
    Tonga
    Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

    , Nomuka Iki Islands
    Nomuka
    Nomuka is a small island in the southern part of the Haapai group of islands in the Kingdom of Tonga. It is part of the Nomuka Group of islands, also called the Otu Muomua....

     (3 species)
  • Baconaoscia Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Barnardoscia Taiti & Ferrara, 1982South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

     (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, 1914Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka
    Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

    , Nepal
    Nepal
    Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

    , Burma, China
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

    , Korea
    Korea
    Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

    , Taiwan
    Taiwan
    Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

    , Indonesia
    Indonesia
    Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    , Cameroon, Sao Tomé
    São Tomé
    -Transport:São Tomé is served by São Tomé International Airport with regular flights to Europe and other African Countries.-Climate:São Tomé features a tropical wet and dry climate with a relatively lengthy wet season and a short dry season. The wet season runs from October through May while the...

    , Mozambique
    Mozambique
    Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

    , Somalia
    Somalia
    Somalia , officially the Somali Republic and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic under Socialist rule, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. Since the outbreak of the Somali Civil War in 1991 there has been no central government control over most of the country's territory...

    , 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
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

    , Annobon Island
    Annobón Province
    Annobón , also known as Pagalu or Pigalu, is an island of Equatorial Guinea. It is located in the South Atlantic Ocean at , about 220 miles west of Gabon and south west of São Tomé Island...

     (4 species)
  • Ctenoscia Verhoeff, 1928 — Western Mediterranean (2 species)
  • Cubanophiloscia Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Dekanoscia Verhoeff, 1936India
    India
    India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

    , cave (1 species)
  • Didima Budde-Lund — Madagascar (1 species)
  • Ecuadoroniscus Vandel, 1968 — Ecuador (1 species)
  • Erophiloscia Vandel, 1972Colombia
    Colombia
    Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

    , 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
    Crimea
    Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

    , Bermuda
    Bermuda
    Bermuda is a British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean. Located off the east coast of the United States, its nearest landmass is Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. It is about south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and northeast of Miami, Florida...

    , Canary Islands
    Canary Islands
    The Canary Islands , also known as the Canaries , is a Spanish archipelago located just off the northwest coast of mainland Africa, 100 km west of the border between Morocco and the Western Sahara. The Canaries are a Spanish autonomous community and an outermost region of the European Union...

    , USA, Argentina (6 or 7 species)
  • Hawaiioscia Schultz, 1973 — Hawai'i (1 species)
  • Heroldia Verhoeff, 1926New Caledonia
    New Caledonia
    New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...

     (6 species)
  • Hoctunus Mulaik, 1960Mexico
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

     (1 species)
  • Huntonia Vandel, 1973 — Australia (1 species)
  • Isabelloscia Vandel, 1973Salomon Archipelago
    Salomon Islands
    The Salomon Islands or Salomon Atoll is a small atoll of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory.-Description:It is located in the Northeast of the Chagos Archipelago, between Blenheim Reef and Peros Banhos...

     (1 species)
  • Ischioscia Verhoeff, 1928 — South America (12 species)
  • Javanoscia Schultz, 1985Java
    Java
    Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...

     (1 species)
  • Jimenezia Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Laevophiloscia Wahrberg, 1922 — Western Australia (9 species)
  • Leonoscia Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1985Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone
    Sierra Leone , officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea to the north and east, Liberia to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west and southwest. Sierra Leone covers a total area of and has an estimated population between 5.4 and 6.4...

     (1 species)
  • Lepidoniscus Verhoeff, 1908Germany
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

    , Switzerland
    Switzerland
    Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

    , Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    , Northern Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

    , Czech Republic
    Czech Republic
    The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

    , Slovakia
    Slovakia
    The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

    , Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

     (4 species)
  • Leucophiloscia Vandel, 1973 — New Guinea (1 species)
  • Loboscia Schmidt, 1998Malaysia (1 species)
  • Metaprosekia Leistikow, 2000 — Venezuela (1 species)
  • Metriogaster Vandel, 1974 — Australia (1 species)
  • Microphiloscia Vandel, 1973 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Mirtana Leistikow, 1997Costa Rica
    Costa Rica
    Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

     (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, 1977Kermadec Archipelago
    Kermadec Islands
    The Kermadec Islands are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga...

     (1 species)
  • Oniscomorphus Jackson, 1938 — Rapa Nui (1 species)
  • Oniscophiloscia Wahrberg, 1922Juan Fernández Islands
    Juan Fernández Islands
    The Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited island group reliant on tourism and fishing in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about off the coast of Chile, and is composed of three main volcanic islands; Robinson Crusoe Island, Alejandro Selkirk Island and Santa Clara Island, the first...

     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
    Guadalcanal
    Guadalcanal is a tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. The largest island in the Solomons, it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Alvaro de Mendaña in 1568...

    , Hawai'i, New Guinea, Japan
    Japan
    Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

    , New Zealand (11 species)
  • Parachaetophiloscia Cruz & Dalens, 1990Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

     (1 species)
  • Paraguascia Schultz, 1995 — Paraguay (1 species)
  • Parapacroscia Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Paraphiloscia Stebbing, 1900Solomon Islands
    Solomon Islands
    Solomon Islands is a sovereign state in Oceania, east of Papua New Guinea, consisting of nearly one thousand islands. It covers a land mass of . The capital, Honiara, is located on the island of Guadalcanal...

    , Samoa
    Samoa
    Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa, formerly known as Western Samoa is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. It became independent from New Zealand in 1962. The two main islands of Samoa are Upolu and one of the biggest islands in...

    , New Guinea (9 species)
  • Parischioscia Lemos de Castro, 1967Guiana
    Guinea (region)
    Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested tropical regions and ends at the Sahel.-History:...

     (1 species)
  • Pentoniscus Richardson, 1913 — Costa Rica (4 species)
  • Perinetia Barnard, 1958 — Madagascar (1 species)
  • Philoscia Latreille, 1804Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

    , Mediterranean (ca. 10 species)
  • Philoscina Ferrara & Taiti, 1985 — South Africa (3 species)
  • Platyburmoniscus Schmidt, 2000 — Sri Lanka (1 species)
  • Platycytoniscus Herold, 1931Flores
    Flores
    Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The population was 1.831.000 in the 2010 census and the largest town is Maumere. Flores is Portuguese for "flowers".Flores is located east of Sumbawa...

    , Sri Lanka (2 species)
  • Pleopodoscia Verhoeff, 1942 — East Africa (6 species)
  • Plumasicola Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Plymophiloscia Wahrberg, 1922 — Australia, Tasmania
    Tasmania
    Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

     (8 species)
  • Portoricoscia Leistikow, 1999Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico
    Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

     (1 species)
  • Prosekia Leistikow, 2001 — Venezuela (1 species)
  • Pseudophiloscia Budde-Lund — Chile (3 species)
  • Pseudosetaphora Ferrara & Taiti, 1986Seychelles
    Seychelles
    Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

     (1 species)
  • Pseudotyphloscia Verhoeff, 1928Sulawesi
    Sulawesi
    Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...

    , West Java, Taiwan (1 species)
  • Puteoscia Vandel, 1981 — Cuba (1 species)
  • Quintanoscia Leistikow, 2000 — Mexico (1 species)
  • Rostrophiloscia Arcangeli, 1932Dominica
    Dominica
    Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...

     (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, 1908Dalmatia
    Dalmatia
    Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....

    , Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    , 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, 1985Togo
    Togo
    Togo, officially the Togolese Republic , is a country in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north. It extends south to the Gulf of Guinea, on which the capital Lomé is located. Togo covers an area of approximately with a population of approximately...

     (1 species)
  • Tongoscia Dalens, 1988Tonga
    Tonga
    Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...

     (1 species)
  • Trichophiloscia Arcangeli, 1950 — Sardinia (1 species)
  • Troglophiloscia Brian, 1929 — Cuba, Mexico, Belize
    Belize
    Belize is a constitutional monarchy and the northernmost country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, comprising many cultures and languages. Even though Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official...

     (3 species)
  • Tropicana Manicastri & Taiti, 1987 — Hawai'i, Sri Lanka, Comoro Islands
    Comoro Islands
    The Comoros Islands form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the south-east coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and north-west of Madagascar. They are divided between the sovereign state of Comoros and the French overseas department of Mayotte...

    , 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
    Bioko
    Bioko is an island 32 km off the west coast of Africa, specifically Cameroon, in the Gulf of Guinea. It is the northernmost part of Equatorial Guinea with a population of 124,000 and an area of . It is volcanic with its highest peak the Pico Basile at .-Geography:Bioko has a total area of...

    , Cameroon (2 species)

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