Pseudotyphloscia cf alba (Dollfus, 1898)
Synonyms
Pseudotyphloscia sp. Eden A
Status:
GB IUCN status: Not applicable (non-native)
ID Difficulty
Identification
Pseudotyphloscia cf alba is a very slender pallid species, with a markedly stepped pereion/pleon outline, and conspicuously long antennae bearing three flagella articles.
A brief description of this species, with figures, is given in Gregory (2014).
Distribution
Pseudotyphloscia cf alba is known only at Eden Project (Rainforest Biome), Cornwall, where it was first collected in 2004 and 2005. It was refound in good numbers in 2010 (Gregory, 2014) and more recently in 2020 and 2024 (Gregory, 2025).
Habitat
In 2004 and 2005 specimens were collected from leaf-litter by Tullgren funnel extraction. In 2010 hand searching beneath stones, dead wood and among damp leaf-litter proved productive.
In 'the wild' Pseudotyphloscia alba has a wide Oriental distribution, including Southern China, Taiwan, Philippines and Indonesia.
References
Gregory, S.J. (2025) 15 years on: An update to Woodlice and Waterlice in Britain and Ireland, part 2 ~ Non-native species, not yet naturalised. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group, 37: 7-25.
Gregory, S. (2014) Woodlice (Isopoda: Oniscidea) from Eden Project, Cornwall, with descriptions of species new to Britain, and poorly known British species. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 27: 3-26.
Links
World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=262803
BRC code
76