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Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ]
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals.
Armadillidium (/ ɑːr m ə d ɪ ˈ l ɪ d i ə m /) is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata.
Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, [ 2 ] and from louse , a parasitic insect, [ 3 ] although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects.
Oniscidea (commonly known by a variety of names including woodlouse, pillbug, slater, roly-poly, potato bug, et al.) serve as hosts. Infection is associated with decreased responsiveness in the host, increased mortality and the emergence of an iridescent blue or bluish-purple colour due to the reflection of light off a paracrystalline ...
Cubaris murina, commonly known as the little sea isopod or little sea roly poly, is a species of woodlouse in the family Armadillidae. It is found in North America, Africa, South America, Australasia , tropical Asia, and the Pacific Ocean .
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Yes, in America too, "roly-poly" refers to a fat man but it also applies to anything that rolls (such as in the song "Roll Them Roly Poly Eyes") so that explains the use of the term for a bug that rolls up into a ball. 66.72.193.129 "Roly-poly", definitely. Yahoo searches don't help much, but I've always seen it with the single "l"s.