#4440 · 🦀 crabs & other crustaceans
Common Striped Woodlouse
🇳🇱 Mospissebed ·Philoscia muscorum
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 2. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Marcello Consolo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Nash Turley · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Meghan Cassidy · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Dann Thombs · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Sequoia Janirella Wrens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
Philoscia muscorum , the common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse , is a common European woodlouse. It is widespread in Europe, the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to the Ukraine and Greece. 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.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 878 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #5 most seen of the crabs & other crustaceans in NL.
- 29,449 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Striped Woodlouse
- Nederlands
- Mospissebed
- scientific name
- Philoscia muscorum
- class
- Malacostraca
- order
- Isopoda
- family
- Philosciidae
- sightings in NL
- 878
- sightings in Europe
- 13,925
- sightings worldwide
- 29,449
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,620
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Philosciidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48292, Wikidata Q1646839, GBIF 2209507, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.