Species Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Armadillo vulgaris Latreille, P.A. 1804. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés et des Insectes. pp. 1-413 in Buffon, G.L.L. de (ed.). Histoire Naturelle … nouvelle édition accompagnée de Notes … Ouvrage … rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 7 64 vols pp. [48].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (A. Vandel wrote in 1960 to A.J.A. Green that the types, mounted on pins, have turned to dust), Europe.

  Type locality references:

  Budde-Lund, G. 1885. Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per Familias et Genera et Species descripta. Hauniae : Sumtibus Auctoria 320 pp.
• Armadillidium subdentatum Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crustacea. Addenda et corrigenda. Sydney : Australian Museum xxiv 324 pp., 4 pls. [279].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1895.11.14.87–88 (part) ♂♂, Sydney, NSW and TAS.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Green, A.J.A. 1961. A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 258-365 [324]

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Introduced from Europe and UK.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Dry sclerophyll forest, pastures, gardens.

 

General References

Green, A.J.A. 1974. Oniscoidea (Terrestrial Isopoda). pp. 229-249 in Williams, W.D. (ed.). Biogeography and Ecology in Tasmania. The Hague : Junk 498 pp. (ecology)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)