Xenylla humicola (Fabricius 1780)
- Dataset
- An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Entognatha
- order
- Collembola
- family
- Hypogastruridae
- genus
- Xenylla
- species
- Xenylla humicola
description
BC Spencer 1948; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Setälä & Marshall 1994; Rusek & Marshall 1995; Skidmore 1995; Addison et al. 2003; Cannings & Scudder 2005; Cannings 2010 AB Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Lindo 2014 MB Hammer 1953; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006; Porco et al. 2014 ON James 1933; Hammer 1938; Maynard 1951; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Bird & Chatarpaul 1986; Skidmore 1995 QC Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999 a Remarks: This species prefers “ seashore habitats with rich algal growth ” (Fjellberg 1998, p. 52) in the Palaearctic but appears to inhabit both shore and inland communities in Nearctic, for instance “ forest and meadow litter ” of Alaska (Fjellberg 1985, p. 56). These differences in habitat preference are unusual and raise some doubts about the identity of this species. General distribution: Holarctic.
Name
- Homonyms
- Xenylla humicola (Fabricius 1780)