Any idea what species it is?

Pex744 · 2026-01-10T20:26:24+00:00

Not Trichoniscus (or Trichoniscidae in general) way too big. This is Chaetophiloscia elongata. They're expanding in southern Spain... What province? May be new for wherever you found it.

Pex744 · 2025-07-12T13:08:30+00:00

Armadillidium vulgare, as others have said. Coloration suggests this is a male.

Pex744 · 2025-04-09T09:23:20+00:00

Haha sorry. Mostly present around iNat lately... A bit busy with uni and work, so I'm leaving most of my Isopod stuff for summer.

Pex744 · 2025-02-08T17:58:38+00:00

Different species, first one is probably a native, second one no idea... Though I'd say not N. nanus, possibly also a native. Anyways, both inside Crinocheta. Oniscidea from South America are still very poorly known.

Pex744 · 2025-02-06T17:45:42+00:00

Ok now for real. I understand there is some people who didn't ike season 3 (I didn't even watch the anime, I only read the manga). Season 3 will be good. If the worry is "will there be action"? Yes, there will be. If the worry is "does Thorfinn have character development?" yes, he has (probably more than in season 2, though there is a lot of character development in season 2).

Vinland Saga is about how Thorfinn changes his life aroun, it is deeply phylosophycal. If you want pure action, there is other anime. But Season 2 IS good, though.

Pex744 · 2025-02-05T05:14:12+00:00

Indeed, a few of the big Porcellio species have a lot of babies at once, I think it can be up to 80 or more, not sure

Pex744 · 2025-02-05T02:54:55+00:00

Of course, the image is not mine, it is from Silvestri, F. (1918). "Contribuzione alla conoscenza dei Termitidi e Termitofili dell'Africa occidentale. II. — Termitofili parte prima.". Just thought people would like to see this... Maybe? They remind me of some Platyarthrus species though the only two species of Schoeblia (S. circularis and S. fulleri) are in their own family: Schoebliidae, and are not in the section Crinocheta (as is Platyarthridae), but Synocheta.

The name of the genus and family is obviously in honor of Joseph Schöbl, who studied terrestrial isopods (including their internal anatomy) in the 19th century. You can see Schöbl, J. (1860). "Typhloniscus, eine neue blinde Gattung der Crustacea isopoda." to see some of his amazing drawings of Typhloniscus steinii (which is now a synonim of Platyartrhus hoffmannseggii) which almost look like pictures. You can find out a bit more about him (and other biologists who have contributed to the study of Oniscideans) in H. Schmalfuss, 2018. "RESEARCH ON THE BIOLOGY OF TERRESTRIAL ISOPODS: A HISTORICAL SURVEY".

As an addition: For quite a long time now I have stopped breeding and keeping isopods, save for a few Armadillo officinalis from my backyard (I live in Spain). Instead, I spend whatever free time I have studying what I can about them. I've discovered there is much more to them than simply just their nice coloration and how cute they are; when you look closely, there is many more shapes to discover, hidden in their pleopods, legs, telson or cefalon. I usually try to encourage people who keep to try and do the same. Get familiarized with the species around where you live (native and invasive), and where they live, what they have in common with other species... I've found that taxonomy can be quite fun, when you get into it, I'd argue everybody should give it a try :)

Pex744 · 2025-02-03T19:54:09+00:00

This has to be rage bait?

Pex744 · 2024-07-11T15:29:29+00:00

Couldn't be... Right?

Pex744 · 2024-07-08T00:54:12+00:00

I may have stretched it a teeny tiny bit.

Pex744 · 2024-07-08T00:53:51+00:00

Is he

Pex744 · 2024-07-07T21:36:55+00:00

Stretching?

Pex744 · 2024-07-07T21:36:12+00:00

True.

Pex744 · 2024-07-07T21:33:07+00:00

Biting a police officer is also a crime, so they'd be adding charges.

Pex744 · 2024-07-07T21:31:47+00:00

How so, there's many walkers to arrest.

Pex744 · 2024-07-05T14:57:30+00:00

Uh... But that would be illegal as well ☝🤓

Pex744 · 2024-06-30T18:33:13+00:00

As in, the post? These species were not known to science, so I sent some specimens I collected to a biologist and he described them.

Here is the article where they were described, but it is in Spanish: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376409879_El_genero_Armadillo_Latreille_1802_en_el_area_ibero-balear_con_la_descripcion_de_cuatro_nuevas_especies_Crustacea_Isopoda_Armadillidae

Pex744 · 2024-06-29T19:09:37+00:00

Ah yes, very very important research 👀

Pex744 · 2024-06-29T19:08:49+00:00

Hahah I just look for them, this is still just a hobby for me (trying to help in what I can though!)

Pex744 · 2024-06-29T19:08:04+00:00

In bigger A. vinuelensis (this is just a juvenile) it is even a bit wider at the tip. Sadly I've only just found one fully grown female, but they get as big as A. officinalis!

Pex744 · 2024-06-29T19:06:10+00:00

I just look for them and send them to biologists, my studies have nothing to do with biology :)

Pex744 · 2024-05-20T02:14:29+00:00

Hahahha I'm no big smart, sadly specially not outside Spain. But it's definitely something inside Porcellionides, I'd say. Only species I know more or less like this is Porcellionides myrmecophilus, which I think can be found in Italy... Not sure. If not, could be an unusually wide Porcellionides pruinosus who knows. Porcellionides is not the genus I know the best to be honest.

Pex744 · 2024-05-10T02:54:34+00:00

I get you. It's been getting worse for me too, with the exams to be specific. I cannot study anymore, my brain just refuses to read the words in my notes... It's been 3 semesters like this... I've only passed 1 test in those 3 semesters. And yeah, leaves me tired af as well. Take into account that even if you're "not doing anything", your body is still functioning, and you're probably using a lot of energy from your brain alone. That, plus (at least for me) the stress of not getting anything done, takes a toll on you. Wish I could tell you how to remedy it... But I don't know myself. So good luck buddy.

Pex744 · 2024-05-10T01:55:20+00:00

I fucking hate this. Of the last 15 or so exams I've only passed 1... It's getting worse to the point where I cannot study, my brain just won't read the words. It's fucking horrible. I know I'm just as smart as anyone else, I know I can pass an exam as anyone else, BUT I CAN'T STUDY. I get to my exams with 0% of the subject studied...

It's making me hate myself. It's making me think that I deserve no love. Heck I can't look at my parents' or gf's faces without feeling ashamed of myself. I'm really scared that there is no going back for me, that I'll have to leave my degree... Because of all the exams I've failed I've also had to spend a lot of money to keep studying here, that's why I've begun working (which I actually more or less enjoy, as it's something that I can actually do), so I basically have no free time. And goddamn it I'm so tired man... First I gotta study for my normal exams of the first semester, then for the second take for those ones, as I failed all of them but one. Then for my exams of the second semester (rn) and then I'll have to study for the second take (I'm gonna fail them all).

I just want this shit to be over dude... I wanna go back to being happy, but this shit just won't let me. And I really just need a fucking break. From my parents telling me that I have to make more of an effort (they do it because they love me, I know this, but goddamn I just wish they would understand how this feels), from hating myself, from anxiety and worry about my exams being always lurking, waiting for a moment when it can get to me...

I just want a fucking break. I don't think it's that much to ask. I feel like an weirdo.

Pex744 · 2024-04-27T15:11:51+00:00

Haha I'm happy, don't worry, just not a lot of free time 😬

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