The British Woodlice / Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands

by Wilfred Mark Webb; Charles Sillem

Europe: France; (25): Spain; (12): Sicily; (19): Sebastopol; (Norman, 49).

Africa: Azores; Canaries; Morocco; Algiers; Tunis: Egypt Senegal; (24).

Atlantic Isles: Canaries; Azores; (21).

Asia: Syracuse; Bazone (18).

Genus—PLATYARTHRUS Brandt, 1833 (3), p. 174.

[Typhloniscus Schöbl (66), p. 279.]

Flagellum with one joint; eyes wanting; abdomen broad; habitat, ants' nests.

The broad body, which is much flattened, and the very thick antennæ distinguish Platyarthrus from the other small woodlice (Trichoniscidæ).

Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Brandt. [Plate XII.]

1833 Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Brandt (3), p. 174, pl. IV., fig. 10.
1844 Itea crassicornis Koch (34), part 36, pl. V.
1860 Typhloniscus steinii Schöbl (66), p. 282.
1868 Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Bate and Westwood (1), p. 464.
1898 Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii Sars (59), p. 175, pl. LXXVI., fig. 2.