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Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 319 – Issue No. 319

Common Rough Woodlouse
Common Rough Woodlouse: species of family “Porcellionid Woodlice“

The summary discusses Porcellio scaber, a species of woodlouse found in Central and Western Europe, the United Kingdom, North America, South Africa, and Australia. It describes the taxonomy, distribution, physical characteristics, habitat, feeding habits, life cycle, and behavior of the species. The woodlouse exhibits specific behaviors to avoid desiccation and predators and has been the inspiration for an algorithm called the Porcellio scaber algorithm (PSA) used for solving optimization problems.

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