Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. A number of common names make reference to the fact that some species of woodlice can roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig. The collective noun is a quabble of woodlice. [9] Common names include:
Armadillidium (/ ɑːr m ə d ɪ ˈ l ɪ d i ə m /) is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata.
Atlantoscia floridana is a species of woodlouse in the family Philosciidae.It is found in North America, Africa, and South America. [1] [2] [3]They can be fragile but are naturally rich in calcium.
P. muscorum may reach 11 millimetres (0.43 in) in length, with a shiny body which is mottled and greyish-brown in colour. [3] The fast woodlouse is, as its name suggests, faster than other common species; its body is raised up off the ground rather more than the others and the head is always very dark in colour.
To avoid desiccation, most woodlice (including P. scaber) exhibit thigmokinesis, slowing down or stopping when in contact with multiple surfaces (such as the corner of a box or a crack between two bricks). This behaviour leads to clumping of woodlice, reducing the exposed surface area through which water can be lost.
Oniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus. Six genera are certainly placed in the family ( Oniscus , Oroniscus , Phalloniscus , Rabdoniscus , Rodoniscus and Sardoniscus ), with eight others included by some sources ( Cerberoides , Diacara , Exalloniscus , Hanoniscus , Hiatoniscus , Hora , Krantzia and ...
Philosciidae is a family of woodlice. They occur almost everywhere on earth, with most species found in (sub)tropical America , Africa and Oceania , and only a few in the Holarctic realm . Genera
Trichoniscus pusillus, sometimes called the common pygmy woodlouse, is one of the five most common species of woodlice in the British Isles. It is acknowledged to be the most abundant terrestrial isopod in Britain. [3] It is found commonly across Europe north of the Alps, and has been introduced to Madeira, the Azores and North America. [4]