Ligidium hypnorum

Tags: Crustacean.

Ligidium hypnorum is a species of woodlouse found across Europe and western Asia. It is a fast-moving active species which rarely grows longer than 9 millimetres (0.35 in). It is dark and shiny and is similar in appearance to the common species Philoscia muscorum and also the rarer Oritoniscus flavus. In Great Britain it was first discovered at Copthorne Common Surrey in 1873 and the majority of later records are also from South East England.

binomial authority

Georges Cuvier

class

Malacostraca

family

Ligiidae

genus

Ligidium

kingdom

Animal

order

Isopoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*, *Ligia melanocephala (C. Koch 1838), *Ligidium agile (Persoon 1793), *Ligidium amethystinum (Schöbl 1861), *Ligidium carpathicum (Verhoeff 1937), *Ligidium cursorium (Budde-Lund 1885), *Ligidium paludicola (C. Koch 1841), *Ligidium persoonii (Brandt 1833), *Ligidium silvaenigrae (Verhoeff 1937), *Oniscus agilis (Persoon 1793), *Oniscus hypnorum (Cuvier 1792), *Zia agilis (C. Koch 1841), *Zia melanocephala (C. Koch 1841), *Zia paludicolia (C. Koch 1841), *Zia saundersi (Stebbing 1873)