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Species Porcellionides pruinosus - Plum Woodlouse

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
Superorder Peracarida (Marsupial Crustaceans)
Order Isopoda (Isopods)
No Taxon (Scutocoxifera)
Suborder Oniscidea (Woodlice)
Infraorder Holoverticata
No Taxon (Orthogonopoda)
No Taxon (Crinocheta)
Family Porcellionidae
Genus Porcellionides
Species pruinosus (Plum Woodlouse)
Explanation of Names
Porcellionides pruinosus (Brandt 1833)
Numbers
10 subspecies (ITIS)
Size
5―10 mm
Identification
External diagnostic features (Ferenc Vilisics's comments):
2-segmented flagellum
abdomen slender, visibly divides from thorax
color ranges from blue-violet to light orange
no patches or stripes, only subtle waxy grains that make the dorsum look "soft"
often in warm places, compost heaps, under sunlit rocks
More here
Range
Native to the Mediterranean, adventive elsewhere and now cosmopolitan(1)
Habitat
anthropogenic situations(1)
Internet References
Species page(2)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the New World (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea)
Leistikow A., Wägele J.W. 1999. Rev. Bras. Zool. 16: 1‒72.
2.British Myriapod & Isopod Group
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 March, 2009 - 5:01pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 10 August, 2023 - 8:21pm

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