#4439 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Common Pill Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Gewone oprolpissebed ·Armadillidium vulgare
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what is it?
Armadillidium vulgare , the (common) pill-bug , potato bug, (common) pill woodlouse , roly-poly , doodle bug , or carpenter , is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 1,153 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #4 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 166,794 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1804 (222 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Pill Woodlouse
- Nederlands
- Gewone oprolpissebed
- scientific name
- Armadillidium vulgare
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Armadillidiidae
- sightings in NL
- 1,153
- sightings in Europe
- 28,573
- sightings worldwide
- 166,794
- GBIF records in NL
- 18,485
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1804 by Pierre André Latreille
relatives· Armadillidiidae
#4489 📷 10Nosy Pill Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Neusoproller
Armadillidium nasatum
👀 8 in NL
#4498 📷 10Beautiful Pill Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Prachtoproller
Armadillidium pulchellum
👀 5 in NL
#4502 📷 10Arcangeli's Pill Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Kleine oproller
Armadillidium arcangelii
👀 2 in NL
#4514 📷 10Versicolored Pill Woodlouse
Armadillidium versicolor
🌍 3.5k seen
#4519 📷 10Southern Pill Woodlouse
Armadillidium depressum
🌍 2.1k seen
#4520 📷 10Granulated Pill Woodlouse
Armadillidium granulatum
🌍 2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56083, Wikidata Q1300629, GBIF 2203611, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.