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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Marsupial Crustaceans (Peracarida) » Isopods (Isopoda) » Scutocoxifera » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Holoverticata » Orthogonopoda » Crinocheta » Porcellionidae » Porcellio » Common Rough Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber)
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Pill Bug - Porcellio scaber
Copyright © 2018 Jim Brighton

Pill Bug - Porcellio scaber
Oxford, Talbot County, Maryland, USA
January 27, 2018
This pill bug was found under a wooden block. Sorry for the horrible photo but if an identification can be made it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks as always.
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Contributed by Jim Brighton on 2 February, 2018 - 5:25pm
Last updated 5 March, 2018 - 6:24pm

Moved
Moved from Woodlice.
… Hisserdude, 5 March, 2018 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

Not a pill
Not all woodlice are pillbugs. These "other" woodlice generally cannot roll up.

This one is flat and lacks the round, convex shape of a true pill, so it is easy to identify as not being one.

Cheers
… C, 2 February, 2018 - 7:32pm login or register to post comments

 
It may be Porcellio scaber
but bugguide says that scaber is densely covered in tubercles in the Identif. section.

Unfortunately seems too blurred to see how dense the tubercles actually are, but it does seem to look like a Porcellio sp. either way.
… C, 2 February, 2018 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

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