Platyarthridae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera: Cephaloniscus Ferrara & Taiti, 1989 Echinochaetus Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1983 Gerufa Budde-Lund, 1909 Lanceochaetus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978 Manibia Barnard, 1932 Niambia Budde-Lund, 1904 Papuasoniscus Vandel, 1973 Platyarthrus Brandt, 1833 Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908
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Platyarthridae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera: Cephaloniscus Ferrara & Taiti, 1989 Echinochaetus Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1983 Gerufa Budde-Lund, 1909 Lanceochaetus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978 Manibia Barnard, 1932 Niambia Budde-Lund, 1904 Papuasoniscus Vandel, 1973 Platyarthrus Brandt, 1833 Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908
They are mostly less than long, and cannot roll into a ball (conglobate). They have no lungs on the pleopods, and have very small compound eyes, with fewer than 10 ommatidia. They are similar to members of the family Trachelipodidae, which do have pleopodal lungs, although the lungs can be inconspicuous.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).