Xenylla humicola, (Fabricius, 1780)

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 23-24

X. humicola ( Fabricius, 1780)

– Podura humicola Fabricius, 1780: 213

AK Fjellberg 1985; Skidmore 1995

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. 1999a

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.