Ligiidae

"Diplocheta" redirects here. For the superorder of millipedes in class Diplopoda, see Juliformia.

Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.^[3][1] The members of this family are common on rocky shores, in similar habitats to those inhabited by species of the bristletail Petrobius and the crab Cyclograpsus.^[4]

Ligiidae
Ligia oceanica
Ligidium japonicum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Oniscidea
Infraorder:	Ligiamorpha
Section:	Diplocheta Vandel, 1957 [1]
Family:	Ligiidae Leach, 1814 [2]

Genera

This family contains the following genera:^[5]

• Caucasoligidium Borutzky, 1950
• †Eoligiiscus Sánchez-García, Peñalver, Delclos & Engel, 2021
• Ligia Fabricius, 1798
• Ligidioides Wahrberg, 1922
• Ligidium Brandt, 1833
• Tauroligidium Borutzky, 1950
• Typhloligidium Verhoeff, 1918