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Description
"Brownish mottled with pale patches and a clear dark stripe along the back" (BugGuide).
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Source: Wikipedia
Philoscia muscorum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Isopoda |
Suborder: | Oniscidea |
Family: | Philosciidae |
Genus: | Philoscia |
Species: | P. muscorum
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Binomial name | |
Philoscia muscorum |
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] It has also spread to Washington and many states in New England, also the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as Nova Scotia.[4]
Description
[edit]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.
Classification
[edit]Twelve subspecies are recognised:[1]
- Philoscia muscorum albescens Collinge, 1918
- Philoscia muscorum aureomaculata Collinge, 1918
- Philoscia muscorum biellensis Verhoeff, 1936
- Philoscia muscorum dalmatia Verhoeff, 1901
- Philoscia muscorum frigidana Verhoeff, 1928
- Philoscia muscorum maculata Collinge, 1918
- Philoscia muscorum marinensis Verhoeff, 1933
- Philoscia muscorum muscorum (Scopoli, 1763)
- Philoscia muscorum rufa Legrand, 1943
- Philoscia muscorum standeni Collinge, 1917
- Philoscia muscorum triangulifera Verhoeff, 1918
- Philoscia muscorum virescens Collinge, 1917
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli, 1763)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 19, 2010.
- ^ "Common striped woodlouse (Philoscia muscorum)". ARKive. Archived from the original on 2009-06-11. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ a b "Fast woodlouse - Philoscia muscorum". Natural England. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2009.
- ^ a b "Philoscia muscorum muscorum" (PDF). National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 28, 2009.