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title: "Common Striped Woodlouse"
description: "Philoscia muscorum — Other animals. Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse, is a common European woodlouse."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/common-striped-woodlouse
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Striped Woodlouse

> Philoscia muscorum — Other animals. Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse or fast woodlouse, is a common European woodlouse.

- Scientific name: *Philoscia muscorum*
- Category: `other` (Other animals)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest), `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 28787
- Wikidata: [Q1646839](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1646839)
- iNaturalist taxon: [48292](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48292)

## Names

- en: Common Striped Woodlouse
- de: Moosassel
- fr: Philoscie des mousses
- nl: Mospissebed
- pl: Podliść zwinny

## Countries with the most observations

US (11436), GB (4222), FR (3597), CA (2545), DE (2543), NL (867), DK (719), BE (400), SE (306), PL (296), CH (182), AT (151)

## Summary

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 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.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philoscia_muscorum

## Photo

![Common Striped Woodlouse](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-striped-woodlouse/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jolesh · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/46606773

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/common-striped-woodlouse?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).