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So far as I am aware, æstivation among the terrestrial Isopoda (woodlice) is unknown, and among the freshwater forms I know of only one example, that recorded by Mackin and Hubricht1, who in writing on Caecidotea spatulata Mac. and Hubr. state, "When the ponds dry up at the beginning of summer, they burrow into the mud, construct a small cell in which they remain dormant until the pools again fill with water the following spring".
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COLLINGE, W. Æstivation among Terrestrial Isopoda. Nature 154, 364 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154364a0
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