Trichorhina mulaiki

Trichorhina mulaiki is a species of woodlouse in the family Platyarthridae.

Trichorhina mulaiki
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Oniscidea
Family:	Platyarthridae
Genus:	Trichorhina
Species:	T. mulaiki
Binomial name
Trichorhina mulaiki Schmalfuss, 2003
Synonyms[1]
Mexicostylus squamatus Verhoeff, 1933 Trichorhina squamata – preoccupied by Trichorhina squamata Verhoeff, 1926

Distribution

Trichorhina mulaiki was found near Chilapa de Álvarez, Guerrero, Mexico, where it lives in humus in montane forests.^[2]

Taxonomic history

The species was first described by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1933, as Mexicostylus squamatus. M. squamatus was the only species in the genus Mexicostylus, but that genus was later synonymised with the genus Trichorhina. Since that genus already contained a species T. squamata, a new name had to be provided, and so the species became Trichorhina mulaiki.^[1]