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Hemilepistus

Hemilepistus is a genus of woodlice, created by G. H. A. Budde-Lund in 1879 as a subgenus of Porcellio, but raised to the rank of genus by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1930. It contains the following species:

  • Hemilepistus aphganicus Borutzky, 1958
  • Hemilepistus buddelundi Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus communis Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus crenulatus (Pallas, 1771)
  • Hemilepistus cristatus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus elongatus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus fedtschenkoi (Uljanin, 1875)
  • Hemilepistus heptneri Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus klugii (Brandt, 1833)
  • Hemilepistus magnus Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus nodosus Budde-Lund, 1885
  • Hemilepistus pavlovskii Borutzky, 1954
  • Hemilepistus reaumuri (Milne-Edwards, 1840)
  • Hemilepistus reductus Borutzky, 1945
  • Hemilepistus rhinoceros Borutzky, 1958
  • Hemilepistus ruderalis (Pallas, 1771)
  • Hemilepistus russonovae Borutzky, 1951
  • Hemilepistus schirasi Lincoln, 1970
  • Hemilepistus zachvatkini Verhoeff, 1930

The species are all endemic to Central Asia, except H. reaumuri, which is found from Syria to Algeria.