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European Pill Woodlice
Armadillidiidae
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs, roly polies, Butchy-Boys, or doodle bugs. The best known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill...
19 branches of this family, most-observed first
Pillbugs
genusArmadillidium
Eluma
genusEluma
Split Pill Woodlice
genusSchizidium
Cristarmadillidium
genusCristarmadillidium
Alloschizidium
genusAlloschizidium
Paraschizidium
genusParaschizidium
Echinarmadillidium
genusEchinarmadillidium
Iberiarmadillidium
genusIberiarmadillidium
Trogleluma
genusTrogleluma
Ballodillium
genusBallodillium
Typhlarmadillidium
genusTyphlarmadillidium
Hairy Pill Woodlice
genusTrichodillidium
Paxodillidium
genusPaxodillidium
Platanosphaera
genusPlatanosphaera
Troglarmadillidium
genusTroglarmadillidium
Eleoniscus
genusEleoniscus
Estenarmadillidium
genusEstenarmadillidium
Cyphodillidium
genusCyphodillidium
Exzaes
genusExzaes
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48296.