New species and records of Armadilloniscus Uljanin 1875 (Crustacea Isopoda Oniscidea) from the coasts of the Indian and Pacific oceans

Ten species of Armadilloniscus Uljanin 1875 collected from the coasts of the Indian and Pacific oceans are recorded. Six species, namely A. lamellatus from Somalia, West and East Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, A. malaccensis from West Malaysia, A. iliffei from New Caledonia, A. hawaiianus from the Hawaiian Islands, A. conglobator from New Caledonia, and A. biltoni from Indonesia, are described as new. Diagnostic characters of A. quadricomis Vandel 1970, A. mirabilis Ferrara 1974 and A. indicus Ferrara & Taiti 1983 are illustrated. A. litoralis BuddeLund 1885 is recorded from West Malaysia, Hong Kong, North Korea and the Hawaiian Islands. A map and comments on the distribution of all the species of Armadilloniscus are included, together with a cladistic analysis of the probable phylogenetic relationships between the species.