Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Clickable Guide

Interactive image map to choose major taxa Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

Upcoming Events

National Moth Week was July 19-27, and the Summer 2025 gathering in Louisiana, July 19-27

Photos of insects and people from the 2024 BugGuide gathering in Idaho July 24-27

Moth submissions from National Moth Week 2024

Photos of insects and people from the 2022 BugGuide gathering in New Mexico, July 20-24

Photos of insects and people from the Spring 2021 gathering in Louisiana, April 28-May 2

Photos of insects and people from the 2019 gathering in Louisiana, July 25-27


Crinocheta

Representative Images

Woodlice (A.K.A Sowbugs) - Trachelipus rathkii Orange woodlouse - Oniscus asellus Woodlouse - Porcellionides pruinosus UID Sowbug - Philoscia muscorum isopod - Philoscia muscorum Atlantoscia floridana? - Atlantoscia floridana Armadillidium vulgare Chaetophiloscia sicula

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

Identification

3 flagellomeres that are usually easy to distinguish compared to Synochetans
The only exceptions in our area are Detonidae and Scyphacidae, which have 4 somewhat difficult to discern flagellomeres. They are otherwise fairly different from Synochetans