Woodlice

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, although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects. Other common names include slater, sow bug, and wood pig, common names varying widely by region.

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Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs or rolly pollies. Other common names include slaters, potato bugs, curly bugs, and doodle bugs. Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, Armadillidium

Oniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus. Six genera are certainly placed in the family (Oniscus, Oroniscus, Phalloniscus, Rabdoniscus, Rodoniscus and Sardoniscus), with eight others included by some sources (Cerberoides, Diacara, Exalloniscus, Hanoniscus, Hiatoniscus, Hora, Krantzia and Tasmanoniscus).

Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta. The members of this family are common on rocky shores, in similar habitats to those inhabited by species of the bristletail Petrobius and the crab Cyclograpsus.

Oniscus is a genus of woodlice. It comprises five species, three of which are confined to northwestern Iberia (Oniscus ancarensis, O. galicianus and O. lusitanicus), one to the Pyrenees (Oniscus simonii), and one of which, O. asellus, is widespread across Europe and has been introduced to the Americas .

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.

Trichoniscidae are a family of isopods (woodlice), including the most abundant British woodlouse, Trichoniscus pusillus. 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.

thumb|Armadillo officinalis, Spain thumb|Barrowdillo pseudopyrgoniscus, Barrow Island, Australia thumb|Cubaris insularis, Java, Indonesia

Hemilepistus reaumuri

Platyarthridae is a family of woodlice, containing the following genera: Cephaloniscus Ferrara & Taiti, 1989 Echinochaetus Ferrara & Schmalfuss, 1983 Gerufa Budde-Lund, 1909 Lanceochaetus Schmalfuss & Ferrara, 1978 Manibia Barnard, 1932 Niambia Budde-Lund, 1904 Papuasoniscus Vandel, 1973 Platyarthrus Brandt, 1833 Trichorhina Budde-Lund, 1908

Hemilepistus is a genus of woodlice, first described by G. H. A. Budde-Lund in 1879 as a subgenus of Porcellio, but raised to the rank of genus by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff in 1930. It contains the following species:

Agnaridae is a family of woodlice. They were formerly considered part of the Trachelipodidae, but were moved from that family to Porcellionidae in 1989, and then placed as a separate family in 2003.

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Cylisticidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda. There are at least 4 genera and more than 60 described species in Cylisticidae.

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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.

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Halophilosciidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda. There are at least 3 genera and more than 30 described species in Halophilosciidae.

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Styloniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the following genera: Clavigeroniscus Arcangeli, 1930 Cordioniscus Graeve, 1914 Indoniscus Vandel, 1952 Kuscheloniscus Strouhal, 1961 Madoniscus Paulian de Felice, 1950 Notoniscus Chilton, 1915 Paranotoniscus Barnard, 1932 Pectenoniscus Andersson, 1960 Sinoniscus Schultz, 1995 Styloniscus Dana, 1852 Thailandoniscus Dalens, 1989 Iuiuniscus Souza, Ferreira & Senna, 2015

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Detonidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda. There are at least 3 genera and more than 30 described species in Detonidae.

Eubelidae is a family of woodlice. Its members are mostly distributed in African tropical forests, and partially throughout South-East Asia and the Arabian Peninsula.

Scyphacidae is a family of woodlice in the order Isopoda. It contains 6 genera and about 20 described species in Scyphacidae.

Rhyscotidae is a family of woodlice (suborder Oniscidea), terrestrial crustaceans of the order Isopoda.

Hawaiodillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was described in 1926 by Karl Wilhelm Verhoeff. The type specimen for this species was originally described as a Armadillo perkinsi. There are currently three species in this genus.

Pudeoniscidae is a family of malacostracans in the order Isopoda.

Alloniscus is the sole genus in the woodlice family Alloniscidae. There are more than 20 described species in Alloniscus.

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Scleropactidae is a family of woodlice, with a predominantly Gondwanan distribution. It contains the following genera:

Delatorreiidae is a family of woodlice. It includes the genera Cuzcodinella and Pseudarmadillo.

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Schoeblia is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Schoebliidae.

Cylisticus is a genus of woodlice in the family Cylisticidae. There are at least 70 described species in Cylisticus.

Hybodillo is a genus of woodlice belonging to the family Armadillidae. This genus was originally described in 1931 by Werner Herold, but wasn't formally described until 1998 by Stefano Taiti, Pasquino Paoli, and Franco Ferrara. The type specimen for this species is a Hybodillo colocasiae from Java. There are currently four species in this genus.

Mesoniscus is a genus of woodlice, placed in its own family, Mesoniscidae, and section, Microcheta. It contains two species – Mesoniscus alpicolus and Mesoniscus graniger – that live in Central and Eastern Europe, mostly in and around caves.

Irmaos is a genus of crustaceans belonging to the monotypic family Irmaosidae.

Oniscoidea is a superfamily of isopod crustaceans, which includes most of the land-living woodlice. It includes the "common woodlouse", Oniscus asellus, in the namesake family Oniscidae.

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