The British Woodlice / Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands

by Wilfred Mark Webb; Charles Sillem

Ireland: (Scharff, 63). Yellow form with black spots, Donegal (R.W.)

FOREIGN DISTRIBUTION:—

Europe: Almost throughout; (12): France; (25): Spain; (12): Sweden Norway; Denmark; Germany; Holland; Italy; Iceland; (59): Faroe Islands; Thorsharn; (R.F.S.)

Africa: Azores; (24).

America: Greenland; (59): North America; (Budde-Lund).

Genus—PHILOSCIA Latreille, 1804 (37), p. 43.

Flagellum with three joints; abdomen narrow; head without lateral lobes.

If any further differences of an obvious kind be required to distinguish Philoscia from Oniscus, one at least will be found in the much greater development of the hinder legs in the former genus.

Philoscia muscorum Scopoli. [Plate X.]