Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, [2] and from louse, a parasitic insect, [3] although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects.

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. Fifteen families are recognised in the superfamily : [1] ^ Joel W. Martin & George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF).

Oniscidae is a family of woodlice, including the common woodlouse Oniscus asellus.

Jun 1, 1999 · Woodlice (also called sow bugs, pill bugs and slaters) are terrestrial isopods (class of Crustacea, sub-order Isopoda) of the family Oniscidea, which have invaded terrestrial habitats from aquatic environments.

Oct 28, 2024 · Oniscidea contains almost all known terrestrial isopods. A few semiterrestrial s. hemisphere species are members of the order Phreatoicidea.

Jan 1, 2023 · It is the third most specious group of terrestrial arthropods behind Hexapoda and Arachnida. There appears to be multiple centers of diversity in Oniscidea, with major ones being the Mediterranean Basin, the Afrotropics, Indomalaya, Australasia and the Neotropics.

Keywords: Woodlice; Bioindicators; Terrestrial isopods; Oniscidea; Soil contamination; Heavy metals; Rural landscape; Sustainability 1. Introduction Woodlice (also called sow bugs, pill bugs and slaters) are terrestrial isopods (class of Crustacea, sub-order Isopoda) of the family Oniscidea, which have invaded terrestrial habitats from aquatic ...

Dec 6, 2019 · We applied Bayesian Inference and Maximum Likelihood methods and produced a robust and fully resolved phylogenetic tree that offers strong evidence against the monophyly of Oniscidea.

Dec 23, 2012 · Living isopods of the suborder Oniscidea (commonly called woodlice) are the only group of Crustacea almost entirely composed of terrestrial forms. Furthermore, woodlice are completely independent from the aquatic environment from which they originally arose.

Woodlice form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 5,000 known species. Most organisms interact with other organisms in some way or another, and how they do so usually defines how they fit into an ecosystem.