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- not comparablerarebiologyLoving plant bark.
(3) Pseudisotoma sensibilis and Xenylla boerneri are corticophilous springtails of hemiedaphic life form.
1993, Roswitha Bauer, Erhard Christian, “Adaptations of three springtail species to granite boulder habitats (Collembola)”, in Pedobiologia, volume 37, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2026, page 2802 more examples
The soil fauna and epigeon were classified and analysed in detail, while corticophilous, ripicolous and, synanthropic faunas were described.
1981 September 30, Wanda Maria Weiner, “Collembola of the Pieniny National Park in Poland”, in Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, volume 25, number 18, page 417Forests species Oligaphorura absoloni and eurytopic species Folsomía quadrioculata are only found under the crown of the tree (mostly in the proximity of the trunk) as were the corticophilous Xenylla corticalis; […]
1995 April 30, N. Kuznietsova, M. Sterzyńska, “Effects of single trees on the community structure of soil-dwelling Collembola in urban and non-urban environments”, in Fragmenta Faunistica, volume 37, number 18, Warsaw, Poland: Museum and Institute of Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2025, page 415
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