Riparian woodlouse
The riparian woodlouse is a little woodlouse that loves wet places. It lives on flood plains, the flat land next to rivers that sometimes goes under water. It can survive under water for up to eight weeks.
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Fun facts
It can stay under water for up to eight weeks when its riverside home floods.
It first came from Central and Eastern Europe and was later carried to North America.
In North America it was first found in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1951.
Woodlice are not insects. They are crustaceans, cousins of crabs and shrimps.
Most asked questions about Riparian woodlouse
?Can a woodlouse live under water?
This one can survive under water for up to eight weeks when its home floods.
?Where does the riparian woodlouse live?
On flood plains by rivers in Central and Eastern Europe, and now also in parts of North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyloniscus riparius
- Group
- Woodlice
- Family
- Trichoniscidae
- Classification
- Malacostraca > Isopoda > Trichoniscidae
- Lives on
- Europe, North America
Where the facts come from
- Hyloniscus riparius (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by De Smedt P, Boerave P, Arijs G, Segers S (2018) Woodlice of Belgium: an annotated checklist and bibliography (Isopoda, Oniscidea). In: Hornung E, Taiti S, Szlav. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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