Grey Slater
S1, ventral
Pill Bug
S4, dorsal
| Grey Slater S1, ventral | | Pill Bug S4, dorsal | | ||
 | Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Crustaceans (Malacostraca) | |||
| Order: | Peracarid Crustaceans (Isopoda) | ||||
| Family: | Terrestrial Crustacean (Armadillidiidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare) | ||||
| This Photo: | S7, dorsal | ||||
| Other names: | Pill-bug, Pillbug, Roly-poly, Slater or Woodlouse | ||||
Thank you Grant Schiermeyer for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Interestingly, Atlas only has 2 species described in this family and they are both introduced. Notice the trapezoidal telson of this family mentioned by Grant above. We think the colour variation is due to the specimen #4 recently moulting. Specimen #7 is the colour of an older specimen. | |||||
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