''Deto aucklandiae'' is a

species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

of seashore dwelling

woodlouse Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, and from louse, a parasitic insect, although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects. Woodlice evolved from marine isopods ...

from the

Detonidae Detonidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda Isopoda is an order of crustaceans. Members of this group are called isopods and include both aquatic species and terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exos ...

family.Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). ''Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde.'' Serie A, 654: 1-341., ''available online at'' http://www-alt.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/stuttgart/pdf/a_pdf/A654.pdf ''D. aucklandiae'' is

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to a few

subantarctic The sub-Antarctic zone is a physiographic region in the Southern Hemisphere, located immediately north of the Antarctic region. This translates roughly to a latitude of between 46th parallel south, 46° and 60th parallel south, 60° south of t ...

islands in

New Zealand New Zealand () is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and List of islands of New Zealand, over 600 smaller islands. It is the List of isla ...

Taxonomy

''Deto aucklandiae'' was first described in 1879 as ''Actaecia aucklandiae.'' In 1906, ''D. aucklandiae'' was described again as ''Deto magnifica'' and ''Deto robusta.''Budde-Lund, G. (1906) Die Landisopoden der deutschen Suedpolar- Expedition 1901-1903. Mit Diagnosen verwandter Arten. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903, Berlin (G. Reimer) 9(2):69-92. ''A. aucklandiae'' was then moved to the '' Deto''

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

in 2003 and ''D. magnifica'' and ''D. robusta'' were recognized as

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Description

''Deto aucklandiae'' are a large,

sexually dimorphic Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different Morphology (biology), morphological characteristics, including characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most dioecy, di ...

species, with males reaching 20-24mm in length and females reaching 12-19mm in length. Males have large, thick antennae and a dorsal surface that is covered in spine like tubercles. Females have more slender antennae than the males and can also be distinguished by a slight groove present in segments 2, 3 and 4.

Distribution

''Deto aucklandiae'' occurs in the coastal zone of subantarctic islands in New Zealand.Minor, M., Meyer V., Robertson A., Taiti, S. (2016). ''Deto aucklandiae'' (Thomson, 1879) factsheet. In: NZ Slaters: A Guide and Identification Key to New Zealand Terrestrial Isopoda (updated 31-Jan-2017), http://nzslaters.massey.ac.nz (accessed 27-June-2019) They are known to occur on

Auckland Island Auckland Island () is the main island of the eponymous uninhabited archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the New Zealand subantarctic area. It is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage list together with the other New Zealand Subant ...

, Campbell Island and

Snares Island The Snares Islands (; officially Snares Islands / Tini Heke), known colloquially as The Snares, is a group of uninhabited islands lying about south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-southwest of Stewart Island / Rakiura. The Snar ...

References

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