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Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, [2] and from louse, a parasitic insect, ...
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.
Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse [2] or fast woodlouse, [3] is a common European woodlouse. It is widespread in Europe , the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to Ukraine and Greece . [ 4 ]
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.
Porcellio scaber (otherwise known as the common rough woodlouse or simply rough woodlouse), is a species of woodlouse native to Europe but with a cosmopolitan distribution. They are often found in large numbers in most regions, with many species (shrews, centipedes, toads, spiders and even some birds) preying on them.
The common woodlouse is the most widespread species of woodlouse in the British Isles, both geographically and ecologically. [3] It is rare in the Mediterranean Basin, but is widespread in Northern and Western Europe, as far east as Ukraine, as well as in the Azores and Madeira; it has also been widely introduced in the Americas, [1] predominantly in Mexico and in the United States, east of ...
Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ]
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.