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Unnamed spotting

Description:

I think it's an Arthropod but don't know it's sci name. I want someone identify it.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Woodlouse
Armadillidium sp. Armadillidium


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6 Comments

Sitare Zuhal Tareen
Sitare Zuhal Tareen 12 years ago

Thanks lauraMaria, I would also need your help for my Mphil in fresh water crabs, on which i'm working :)

Sitare Zuhal Tareen
Sitare Zuhal Tareen 12 years ago

It's about 1.6 cm in length

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 12 years ago

This is a kind of wood louse, and from the little "tails" at the back, my best guess is that it's in the Porcellio genus. Hopefully that gives you a good starting point to get the ID for this little guy! Nice spotting :)

Sitare Zuhal Tareen
Sitare Zuhal Tareen 12 years ago

Thanks CorduneanuVlad

CorduneanuVlad
CorduneanuVlad 12 years ago

You might want to check this out also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemilepistu...
Although you are not quite in the Middle East, you are close to it and by the location this seems to be a dry place.

CorduneanuVlad
CorduneanuVlad 12 years ago

I don't really know which one is it... there is a list containing 178 of them in the link I sent you.
All I know about them is that they are land custacean.

کوئٹہ, Baluchistan, Pakistan

Spotted on Jan 16, 2012
Submitted on Jan 23, 2012

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