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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Crustaceans (Crustacea) » Malacostracans (Malacostraca) » Marsupial Crustaceans (Peracarida) » Isopods (Isopoda) » Scutocoxifera » Woodlice (Oniscidea) » Holoverticata » Orthogonopoda » Crinocheta » Trachelipodidae » Trachelipus » Rathke's Woodlouse (Trachelipus rathkii)

Species Trachelipus rathkii - Rathke's Woodlouse

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Internet References · Works Cited
Woodlice - Trachelipus rathkii Sowbug - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlice (A.K.A Sowbugs) - Trachelipus rathkii Rotting wood dweller - Trachelipus rathkii Trachelipus rathkii? - Trachelipus rathkii 9023888 sowbug - Trachelipus rathkii Virginian Isopod - Trachelipus rathkii Woodlice Sp. - Trachelipus rathkii
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 Trachelipodidae
Genus Trachelipus
Species rathkii (Rathke's Woodlouse)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=rathkei (misspelling)
Explanation of Names
Trachelipus rathkii (Brandt 1833)
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)
Internet References
Species page(4)
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.The terrestrial isopods of Nebraska (Crustacea: Isopoda)
W.F. Rapp. 2001. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 27.
3.Wright J. (1997) Pillbugs
4.British Myriapod & Isopod Group
Contributed by tom murray on 12 January, 2007 - 7:12am
Additional contributions by Ted Kropiewnicki, v belov, Astrobirder
Last updated 18 September, 2021 - 9:53pm

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