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Common Pill Woodlouse

Armadillidium vulgare

2,783Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
79Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan35
Feb45
Mar152
Apr536
May526
Jun495
Jul300
Aug286
Sep129
Oct121
Nov50
Dec46

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England201
2Gwynedd Wales181
3Cambridgeshire England127
4Kent England78
5Pembrokeshire Wales77
6Dorset England70
7Cornwall England70
8Devon England68
9Somerset England61
10Norfolk England59
11Surrey England54
12Suffolk England52
13East Riding of Yorkshire England49
14Kingston upon Hull, City of England49
15Bristol, City of England46
2,132 England113 Scotland448 Wales22 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 79 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,783
Peak month
April
Counties with records
79
Scientific name
Armadillidium vulgare
Group
Crustaceans
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,685
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Malacostraca
Order
Isopoda
Family
Armadillidiidae
Genus
Armadillidium
Name with authority
Armadillidium vulgare (Latreille, 1804)
Described
1804
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1300629 · GBIF 2203611