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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.
Key adaptations to terrestrial life have led to a highly diverse set of animals; from the marine littoral zone and subterranean lakes to arid deserts and desert slopes 4,725 m (15,500 ft) above sea-level, woodlice have established themselves in most terrestrial biomes and represent the full range of transitional forms and behaviours for living ...
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.Members of this group are called isopods and include both aquatic species and terrestrial species such as woodlice.All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, and five pairs of branching appendages on the abdomen that are used in respiration.
Most species of woodlice that have returned to an aquatic or amphibian way of life belong to this family. Several species from the following genera live in water and on land: Titanethes, Cyphonetes, Alpioniscus, Scotoniscus, Bureschia, Brackenridgia, Mexiconiscus, Trichoniscoides, Cretoniscellus, Balearonethes and Cyphoniscellus. [2]
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
Tylidae is a family of woodlice. It contains approximately 27 species, all but one in the genus Tylos , the other being Helleria brevicornis . Together with the family Ligiidae , Tylidae appears to have diverged early from the remaining woodlouse families.
It is a common species, occurring wherever the substrate of the littoral zone is rocky, and is especially common in crevices and rock pools and under stones. [2] It is a nocturnal omnivore , [ 7 ] eating many kinds of seaweed, diatoms , [ 2 ] and detritus , with a particular fondness for bladder wrack ( Fucus vesiculosus ). [ 3 ]
Platyarthridae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera: [1]. Cephaloniscus Ferrara & Taiti, 1989; Echinochaetus Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1983; Gerufa Budde-Lund, 1909 ...