Status:
GB IUCN status: Not applicable (non-native)
ID Difficulty
Identification
Venezillo parvus is a small ball-rolling woodlouse, reaching 5 mm in length. It looks rather like an immature Armadillidium vulgare, with which it shares the truncated 'square' uropods, but is readily identified by the characteristic ‘hour-glass’ shape of the telson (also seen in Reductoniscus costulatus), the equally characteristic ‘spectacled’ pigment pattern occurring on each pereionite.
A brief description of this species, with figures, is given in Gregory (2014).
