Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS) - Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804)

Isopoda taxon details

Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804)

To NHMUK collection (Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804); NON-TYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:9528631)

AphiaID

257832 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257832)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Armadillidium Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831

Original name

Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, 1804

Synonymised names

Armadillidium (Armadillidium) schellenbergi Strouhal, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium (Armadillidium) sorattinum Verhoeff, 1951 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium affine Brandt, 1833 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium armeniensis Vandel, 1980 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium brevicaudatum Tua, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium cinereum (Zenker, 1798) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Armadillidium commutatum Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium decipiens Brandt, 1833 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium gallicum Verhoeff, 1907 · unaccepted

Armadillidium nitidulus Collinge, 1915 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium oliveti L. Koch, 1901 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium pilulare (Say, 1818) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium subdentatum Haswell, 1882 · unaccepted

Armadillidium triviale (C. Koch, 1841) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium variegatum Brandt, 1833 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium vulgare var. rubra Tua, 1900 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillidium vulgare var. rufobrunneus Collinge, 1919 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo ater Schnitzler, 1853 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo convexus C. Koch, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo marmoreus C. Koch, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo pilularis Say, 1818 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo pustulatus Dumeril, 1816 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo trivialis C. Koch, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Armadillo variegatus Latreille, 1804 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, 1804 · unaccepted

Oniscus cinereus Zenker in Panzer, 1799 · unaccepted > nomen oblitum (suppressed by ICZN Opinion 1897)

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Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. aureolineatus Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. bicolor Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. cooperi Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. marginatus Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. tesselatus Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. virescens Collinge, 1917
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. rubra Tua, 1900 accepted as Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Variety Armadillidium vulgare var. rufobrunneus Collinge, 1919 accepted as Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]

(of Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, 1804) Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1-413, pls. 58-66. F. Dufart, Paris. [details]

Type data

Note Cosmopolitan

type locality Cosmopolitan [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257832 on 2025-05-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

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Schotte, Marilyn

2016-08-10 11:41:32Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

2019-07-02 16:40:56Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2019-07-22 19:06:47Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Latreille, P.A. (1802-1805). Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. Familles naturelles des genre. Ouvrage faisant suite à l'Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière, composée par Leclerc de Buffon, et rédigée par C.S. Sonnini, membre de plusieurs Sociétés savantes. de L'imprimerie de F. Dufart, Paris. 14 vols.:413 pp., available online at http:// http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24884876 [details]

original description (of Armadillidium oliveti L. Koch, 1901) Koch, L. (1901). Die Isopoden Süddeutschlands und Tirols. Saecular-Feier der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft in Nürnberg 1801-1901. Festschrift. Pp. 1-72. Nürnberg: U. E. Sebald. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium vulgare var. rufobrunneus Collinge, 1919) Collinge, W. E. (1919). Descriptions of some new varieties of British woodlice. The Journal of Zoological Research. 3(4): 101-102. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium affine Brandt, 1833) Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 6: 171-193, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989307 [details]

original description (of Armadillidium subdentatum Haswell, 1882) Haswell, W. A. (1882). Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-Eyed Crustacea. Australian Museum, Sydney, xxiv + 324 + [3] pp., 4 pls. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium variegatum Brandt, 1833) Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 6: 171-193, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989307 [details]

original description (of Armadillidium armeniensis Vandel, 1980) Vandel, A. (1980). Les isopodes terrestres (Oniscoidea) recueillis en Turquie orientale et en Irak occidental par le professeur Curt Kosswig. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse. 116(1-2): 83-119. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Armadillidium brevicaudatum Tua, 1900) Tua, P. (1900). Contribuzione alla conoscenza degli isopodi terrestri italiani. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 15(374): 1-15, 1 pl. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium commutatum Brandt in Brandt & Ratzeburg, 1831) Brandt, J. F.; Ratzeburg, J. T. C. (1831). Isopoda. Gleichfüßler. Medizinische Zoologie oder getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der Thiere die in der Arzneimittellehre in Betracht kommen, in systematischer Folge herausgegeben. 2(3-4): 70-84, pls. 12-13., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51578631 [details]

original description (of Armadillidium decipiens Brandt, 1833) Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 6: 171-193, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989307 [details]

original description (of Armadillidium gallicum Verhoeff, 1907) Verhoeff, K. W. (1907). Über paläarktische Isopoden. 9. Aufsatz: Neuer Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Gattung Armadillidium. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31(15/16): 457-505. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium nitidulus Collinge, 1915) Collinge, W. E. (1915). On a small collection of terrestrial Isopoda from Spain, with descriptions of four new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 51(2): 461-465, pls. 1-2. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium (Armadillidium) schellenbergi Strouhal, 1929) Strouhal, H. (1929). Ueber neue und bekannte Landasseln des Südbalkans im Berliner Zoologischen Museum. (Zugleich 4. Beitrag zur Landisopodenfauna des Balkans). Sitzungsberiche der Gessellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1929: 37-80 (PDF is incomplete). [details] Available for editors

original description (of Armadillidium (Armadillidium) sorattinum Verhoeff, 1951) Verhoeff, K. W. (1951). Diplopoda, Chilopoda und Isopoda terrestria vom Mt. Soratte in Latium. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere. 80: 205-255. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Armadillo ater Schnitzler, 1853) Schnitzler, H. J. (1853). De Oniscineis agri Bonnensis. Dissertatio Zoologica. Cologne. 1-27. [details]

original description (of Armadillo convexus C. Koch, 1840) Koch, C. L. (1840). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 28. Regensburg. [details]

original description (of Armadillo marmoreus C. Koch, 1847) Koch, C.L. (1847). Den Verzeichnissen und Berichtigungen zu Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden und ein System der Myriapoden. [The lists and corrections to Germany's crustaceans, myriapods and arachnids and a system of the myriapods.]. In: Panzer, G.W.F. & Herrich-Schäffer, A. (eds.), Kritische Revision der Insectenfaune Deutschlands. 3: 1-272, pls. 1-10., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33700094 [details]

original description (of Armadillo pilularis Say, 1818) Say, T. (1818). An account of the Crustacea of the United States (concluded). Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia. 1(2): 423-441. [details]

original description (of Armadillo pustulatus Dumeril, 1816) Dumeril, [A. M.] C. (1816). Armadille (entom.), Armadillo. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, dans Llequel on Traite Méthodiquement des Différens êtres de la Nature, Considérés soit en Eux-Mêmes, d'Après l'État Actuel de nos Connoissances, soit Relativement à l'Utilité qu'en Peuvent Retirer la Médecine, l'Agriculture, le Commerce et les Artes. Suivi d'une Biographie des plus Célèbres Naturalistes. 3: 115-117. [details]

original description (of Armadillo trivialis C. Koch, 1841) Koch, C. L. (1840). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 28. Regensburg. [details]

original description (of Armadillo variegatus Latreille, 1804) Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1-413, pls. 58-66. F. Dufart, Paris. [details]

original description (of Oniscus cinereus Zenker in Panzer, 1799) Panzer, W. (1799). Faunae Insectorum Germaniae initia. Nürnberg: Fortges. v. Herrich-Schäffer. Heft 62: 1-24 + plates. [details]

original description (of Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, 1804) Latreille, P. A. (1804). Histoire Naturelle Generale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Volume 7: 1-413, pls. 58-66. F. Dufart, Paris. [details]

original description (of Armadillidium vulgare var. rubra Tua, 1900) Tua, P. (1900). Contribuzione alla conoscenza degli isopodi terrestri italiani. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 15(374): 1-15, 1 pl. [details]

context source (Bermuda) Schultz, G. A. (1972). Ecology and systematics of terrestrial isopod crustaceans from Bermuda (Oniscoidea). Crustaceana , 3: 79-99 [details]

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]

additional source Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie). 654: 1-341., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60882444 [details] Available for editors