Venezillo parvus

About Venezillo parvus

Venezillo parvus is a small terrestrial pill woodlouse in Armadillidae, capable of rolling into a ball. Taiti and Howarth (1996, p. 67) report two Kauaʻi specimens from a pineapple field at Moloʻaʻa and one from Puʻu Konanae on 6 August 1928, both localities listed at about 75 m elevation. Their later records are one from beach leaf litter near the start of the Kalalau–Nā Pali Trail at Hāʻena on 19 January 1973; four from Hibiscus tiliaceus litter and one from Eugenia litter at Hāʻena on 13 May 1969; and two from Albizia litter near Kapaʻa on 13 May 1969. The authors characterize this adventive pantropical species as abundant in disturbed low-altitude habitats, under stones and logs and among litter. That broader ecological description should not be read as an abundance estimate for Kauaʻi. The Atlas separately preserves a CC0 Kauaʻi reference photograph of a rolled individual, while its complete articulated primary scene is explicitly a reconstruction rather than that photograph or a claim to portray a particular museum specimen. The dated collections do not verify current populations or trends.