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Porcellionides myrmecophilus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Subphylum
  
Crustacea

Order
  
Isopoda

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Class
  
Malacostraca

Family
  
Porcellionidae

Porcellionides myrmecophilus is a woodlouse that can be found on islands such as Crete, Cyprus, Cyclades, Dodecanese, North Aegean, Sardinia, Sicily, and on both Greek and Italian mainlands.

Subspecies

The species has 2 subspecies:

  • Porcellionides myrmecophilus graevei (Verhoeff, 1918) – endemic to Sicily
  • Porcellionides myrmecophilus myrmecophilus (Stein, 1859) – widespread

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