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- Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, and from louse, a parasitic insect...
- isopods and include both aquatic species and terrestrial species such as woodlice. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs...
- Europe. In the United Kingdom, it is one of the "big five" species of woodlice. It has also colonised North America, South Africa and other regions including...
- Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this...
- spider (Dysdera crocata) is a species of spider that preys primarily upon woodlice. Other common names refer to variations on the common name of its prey...
- function similar to spiracles in insects. Pleopodal lungs are identifiable on woodlice as white patches on the lower five segments (the pleon) on the ventral...
- crustaceans are free-living aquatic animals, but some are terrestrial (e.g. woodlice, sandhoppers), some are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue...
- millipedes' resemblance to certain woodlice (Oniscidea), also called pillbugs or "roly-polies". However, millipedes and woodlice are not closely related (belonging...
- Cubaris is a genus of woodlice in the family Armadillidae. There are more than 100 described species in the genus Cubaris. Cubaris species have, on average...
- Woodlice are the most species-rich group of terrestrial crustaceans. Of the 4,000 described species found worldwide, 35 species in 10 families are native...