Porcellionides floria
Summary 5
From Garthwaite and Lawson:
In North America, this European introduction is morphologically very similar to Porcellionides pruinosus which is also from Europe. Although it is impossible to assign individuals of these two taxa definitively to species without fresh specimens, all recent collections of Porcellionides from California have been P. floria with the exception of a single collection of P. pruinosus from Death Valley, Inyo County. On this basis we assume all previous reports of P. pruinosus from he San Francisco Bay Area to be P. floria. In the Bay Area, P. floria was reported by Stuzberg from San Francisco, San Francisco County.
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- (c) Don Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY), https://www.flickr.com/photos/loarie/15502317834/
- no rights reserved, uploaded by Scott Loarie
- (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Ken-ichi Ueda
- (c) James Bailey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by James Bailey
- Adapted by Ken-ichi Ueda from a work by (c) Scott Loarie, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
More Info
iNat Map
| Number of articles in flagellum of antenna | 2 |
|---|---|
| Uropod extending beyond posterior margin | yes |
| Pleon continuous with or abruptly narrower than pereon | abruptly narrower |
| Habitat | terrestrial |
| Status | Introduced from Europe |
| Frequency | rare |
| Capable of rolling up? | no |
| Present in noca? | yes |
| Present in soca? | yes |
| Telson shape | pointed |
