Common Pill Woodlouse
Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804)

Taxonomy

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class

Troglophile

Realm

Terrestrial

Distribution

Range

Known from seven counties across six states.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee

Counties

Alabama

Madison

Arkansas

Marion, Searcy

Georgia

Walker

Illinois

Hardin

Missouri

Perry

Tennessee

Van Buren

Conservation and management

NatureServe

GNR Unranked

National ranks

Canada

NNA

United States

NNA

Subnational ranks

Saskatchewan

SNA Not Applicable

British Columbia

SNA Not Applicable

Tennessee

SNA Not Applicable

Wyoming

SNA Not Applicable

Missouri

SNA Not Applicable

Montana

SNA Not Applicable

Minnesota

SNA Not Applicable

Illinois

SNA Not Applicable

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

References

• Graening, G.O., Slay, M.E., Fenolio, D.B. & Robison, H.W. 2007. Annotated checklist of the Isopoda (subphylum Crustacea: class Malacostraca) of Arkansas and Oklahoma, with emphasis upon subterranean habitats. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 87: 1–14. https://ojs.library.okstate.edu/osu/index.php/OAS/article/view/5834/5457.
• Lawson, K.M., Schotz, A.R., Jenkins, A.J., Armbruster, J.W., Black, C., Callahan, M., Goertzen, L., Hansen, C., Stephen, C.D.R., Werneke, D., Mendonca, M. & Molina, E. 2021. Planning level survey of Redstone Arsenal for at-risk species and ecologically significant communities. Environmental Management Division, U.S. Army Garrison, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. 402 pp.
• Lewis, J.J. 2005. A biological inventory of caves of the Cumberland Plateau. Tennessee Chapter Cave Program, The Nature Conservancy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. 156 pp.
• Peck, S.B. & Lewis, J.J. 1978. Zoogeography and evolution of the subterranean invertebrate faunas of Illinois and southeastern Missouri. National Speleological Society Bulletin 40: 39–63.
• Schultz, G.A. 1970. Descriptions of new subspecies of Ligidium elrodii (Packard) comb. nov. with notes on other isopod crustaceans from caves in North America (Oniscoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 84: 36–45. doi:10.2307/2423724
• Webb, D.W., Taylor, S.J. & Krejca, J.K. 1993. The biological resources of Illinois caves and other subterranean environments. Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, Illinois, USA. 143 pp.
• Zigler, K.S., Niemiller, M.L., Stephen, C.D.R., Ayala, B.N., Milne, M.A., Gladstone, N.S., Engel, A.S., Jensen, J.B., Camp, C.D., Ozier, J.C. & Cressler, A. 2020. Biodiversity from caves and other subterranean habitats of Georgia, USA. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 125–167. doi:10.4311/2019LSC0125

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