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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Marsupial Crustaceans (Peracarida) » Isopods (Isopoda) » Scutocoxifera » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Holoverticata » Orthogonopoda » Crinocheta » Tropical and Southern Pillbugs (Armadillidae)

Family Armadillidae - Tropical and Southern Pillbugs

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Phoenix Pill bugs - Venezillo arizonicus Woodlouse - Venezillo parvus Pillbug - Venezillo Pillbug - Venezillo Venezillo parvus Venezillo parvus Venezillo microphthalmus Cubaris benitensis 2 - Cubaris benitensis
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 Armadillidae (Tropical and Southern Pillbugs)
Explanation of Names
Armadillidae Brandt 1831
Numbers
8 spp. in 4 genera in our area(1), ~720 spp. in >80 genera total(2)
Identification
The telson is hourglass-shaped in all of our members of this family vs trapezoidal in Armadillidiidae
Range
Tropical and southern; in our area, across the south (GA‒FL‒CA)
Remarks
Venezillo arizonicus and V. microphthalmus in so.CA are very rare, probably being displaced by nonnative spp.; V. pisum is the only species in FL (endemic & uncommon); and Texas seems to have a few poorly described species.
Armadillo affinis (Dana 1854) [=V. californicus (Budde-Lund 1885)] CA
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.Boyko et al. (Eds) (2008-) World marine, freshwater and terrestrial isopod crustaceans database
Contributed by Harsi S. Parker on 5 May, 2010 - 1:46pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov, Astrobirder
Last updated 7 September, 2023 - 7:57pm

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