Seasonal reproduction in Crustacea is synchronized by environmental cues (e.g., temperature and photoperiod). Two types of responses occur: (1) in reptant decapods, short photoperiods and low temperatures are necessary to induce vitellogenesis; (2) in natant decapods and in most peracarids, both high temperatures and long photoperiods promote the onset of reproduction. In this context studies on the biological clocks involved in photoperiodic time measurement were performed on two crustaceans: the ditch shrimpPalaemonetes variansand the woodlouseArmadillidium vulgare, which is distributed worldwide outside polar and intertropical areas. The most important feature of the photoperiodic response curves was the same mean lag time in response to photophase length ≤ 12 h: short photophases delayed breeding but did not prevent it (i.e., “short-day effect”). On the contrary, long photophases promoted the onset of reproduction (i.e., “long-day effect”) differently inP. variansandA. vulgare. In A. vulgarestrains the shape of the photoperiodic response curve depended on latitudinal origin. Results of “resonance” experiments provided evidence of involvement of an endogenous circadian component in the photoperiodic clocks of the two species according to the internal coincidence model developed for insects. Seeing that relations between reproduction and moulting were different in the two species, we proposed the hypothesis of an evolutionary change in the transition from the sea to the continental environment.