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This video is not the best quality but the little guy spins around for us :) I'll try to get some photos and videos of its underside. Enjoy!

For those of you who collect wild isopods, I'm interested to know the details of how, when, where you collect most successfully: -location (state, country) -time of day / weather that seems to be most favorable for collecting -best hiding spots to find isopods - any containers or contraptions...

I'd have to agree. After you suggested that, I looked up Alloniscus and these appear similar to A. mirabilis or A. perconvexus. If it is a species of "beach woodlouse" I'm not surprised to see it in Asia, being that Alloniscus are common on the US western coast. Isopods are so adaptable and I'm...

I'm interested to see if it changes appearance after it molts. I've heard isopods can regenerate some body parts.

I kept it. I've isolated it and Im going to try to determine its sex tomorrow.

Came across this isopod in the garden. It looks like Armadillidium vulgare, but it's longer, thinner, has a slightly protruding head and has an obvious tail section. It cannot roll into a ball. I was thinking, it's probably just a deformed A.vulgare but wanted to get thoughts from others...

They look similar to Philoscia muscorum (common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse) but I can tell they aren't because their heads aren't dark. Did you find them near a beach or shore? Possibly Ligia baudiniana?