L’importanza dei Proturi nell’ambito delle biocenosi del suolo: stato delle conoscenze

The current knowledge on Protura are too scarce, fragmentary and heterogeneously distributed throughout the World to get a reliable detailed biogeographical and ecological panorama. In the present paper an overview about some aspects of Protura ecology based on literature and on original data of the authors is outlined. In particular, information about phenology, feeding ecology, ecological distribution and habitat selection is provided.