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Dysderidae, also known as woodlouse hunters, sowbug-eating spiders, and cell spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1837. [ 1 ] [ page needed ] They are found primarily in Eurasia , extending into North Africa with very few species occurring in South America.
Ligia exotica can grow to 4 centimetres (1.6 inches) in length, with the males being rather bigger than the females. The general colour is dark grey, sometimes with brown flecks, and the appendages are pale brown.
Woodlouse spiders are usually found under logs, rocks, bricks, plant pots and in leaf litter in warm places, often close to woodlice.They have also been found in houses. They spend the day in a silken retreat made to enclose crevices in, generally, partially decayed wood, but sometimes construct tent-like structures in indents of various large rocks.
Ligia oceanica, Fort-la-Latte, Plévenon, Bretagne, France. The mitochondrial genome of L. oceanica was sequenced in 2006. It is a circular, double-stranded DNA molecule, with a size of 15,289 base pairs.
Thousands of gray wolves roamed America's wilderness for centuries until hunters, ranchers and others nearly decimated the species. In 1973, the federal government listed them as endangered in the ...
The final test for Marine recruits at Parris Island is a grueling 54-hour training exercise called “The Crucible.” In 2021, two recruits collapsed during the challenge and received medical ...
Coastal Ligia species exhibit a mixture of terrestrial and marine characteristics, drying out easily, needing moist air and proximity to water to retain water. [1] While they have gills and can exchange gas under water, they only do so when escaping terrestrial predators or being dislodged by wave action .
Two duck hunters scouting a wooded area in rural North Carolina ended up finding human remains, authorities said Tuesday, in the latest grim discovery made by hunters in recent months.