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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 ]
Woodlice have a basic morphology of a segmented, dorso-ventrally flattened body with seven pairs of jointed legs, and specialised appendages for respiration. Like other peracarids, female woodlice carry fertilised eggs in their marsupium, through which they provide developing embryos with water, oxygen and nutrients.
Beetle, given by A.V. (Leviticus 11:22) as an equivalent for Hebrew, árbéh (אַרְבֶּה), does not meet the requirements of the context: "Hath the legs behind longer wherewith it hoppeth upon the earth", any more than the bruchus of D.V., some species of locust, Locusta migratoria being very likely intended.
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.
Ligidium hypnorum is a species of woodlouse found across Europe and western Asia. [1] It is a fast-moving, active species that rarely grows longer than 9 mm (0.35 in). [2] It is dark and shiny, and is similar in appearance to the common species Philoscia muscorum, and also the rarer Oritoniscus flavus. [2]
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
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
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.