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| 18 November 2018 |
Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse
This medium sized species (to 11mm) with a stepped body outline bearing a distinctive dark dorsal strip, runs rapidly when disturbed. The antennae have three flagella segments and it lacks pleopodal lungs.
Confusion is most likely with Ligidium hypnorum (flagella of numerous bead-like segments) or Porcellionides cingendus (flagella of two segments, plus two pairs of pleopodal lungs). Orange colour forms have been mistaken for Androniscus dentiger.
It has recently become apparent that a second species of Philoscia - P. affinis - also occurs in Britain.
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23 March 2022
4 Feb 2021
18 November 2018
14 November 2018*
18 November 2018
14 November 2018*
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| 23 March 2022 |
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| A very orange one 4 Feb 2021 |
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| 18 November 2018 |
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| 14 November 2018* |
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