Pill Bug
S4, pill
Adelaide Hills
Slater
Dorsal
 
                      
Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Crustaceans (Malacostraca)
Order: Peracarid Crustaceans (Isopoda)
Family: Terrestrial Crustacean (Armadillidiidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Pill Bug (Armadillidium vulgare)
This Photo:     S4, ventral
Other names: Pill-bug, Pillbug, Roly-poly, Slater or Woodlouse

Thank you Grant Schiermeyer for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
Interestingly, Atlas only has 2 species described in this family and they are both introduced.
Notice the trapezoidal telson of this family mentioned by Grant above.
We think the colour variation is due to the specimen #4 recently moulting. Specimen #7 is the colour of an older specimen.

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This species is classed as If (Foreign Introduction)