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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Peracarida (Amphipods and Isopods) (Peracarida) » Isopods (Isopoda) » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Trachelipodidae » Trachelipus » Trachelipus rathkii

Species Trachelipus rathkii

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Sow Bug(Oniscidae) - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlice - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlice - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlice - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlouse - Trachelipus rathkii Sow Bug - Trachelipus rathkii woodlouse - Trachelipus rathkii Small bug - Trachelipus rathkii
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
Superorder Peracarida (Peracarida (Amphipods and Isopods))
Order Isopoda (Isopods)
Suborder Oniscidea (Woodlice)
Family Trachelipodidae
Genus Trachelipus
Species rathkii (Trachelipus rathkii)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=rathkei (misspelling)
Identification
Identification information per Ferenc Vilisics's comments:
flagellum 2-segmented
no apiculate protrusion, but a moderate frontal lobe on the head (middle lobe pointed in P. scaber)
row of white patches on the margin of tergites on both sides and a dark stripe on the back
5 pairs of lungs (white patches on ventral side of abdomen) -- vs only 2 well developed lungs in Porcellionidae
Range
native to Central Europe, adventive in NA and now widespread in the eastern half of the continent from NF to MD & SD(1)(2)(3)
Works Cited
1.Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the New World (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea)
By A. Leistikow & J.W. Wägele
2.The terrestrial isopods of Nebraska (Crustacea: Isopoda)
By W.F. Rapp
3.Pillbugs, by Jonathan Wright
Contributed by tom murray on 12 January, 2007 - 7:12am
Additional contributions by Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov
Last updated 2 April, 2011 - 6:31pm

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