Anchiphiloscia pilosa (Budde-Lund, 1912)
Status:
GB IUCN status: Not applicable (non-native)
ID Difficulty
Identification
Anchiphiloscia pilosa is a small dark philosciid with orange-marked uropods and antennae. In common with other philosciids, it has a stepped body outline, the antennae with three flagella segments and it lacks pleopodal lungs.
A brief description, with figures, is given by Telfer & Gregory (2018).
Distribution
Anchiphiloscia pilosa is a tropical woodlouse recently discovered in the Butterfly House at Whipsnade Zoo (Telfer & Gregory, 2018).
Habitat
Specimens were originally collected from among leaf-litter beneath planted shrubs.
References
Telfer, M.G. & Gregory, S.J. (2018) A woodlouse new to Britain: Anchiphiloscia pilosa (Budde-Lund, 1913) (Oniscidea: Philosciidae) in a heated butterfly house in Bedfordshire. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 30: 12-20.
Links
World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=258864
BRC code
76