Foliage Worm

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Foliage Worm
(Mancerxitermes incolahumi)
Artwork of Foliage Worm
Species is extinct.
17/114, replaced by descendant
Creator Flisch Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Binucleozoa
Symbiovermes
Thoracocephalia
Optidorsalia
Plumosovermes
Mancerxitermitidae
Mancerxitermes
Mancerxitermes incolahumi
Week/Generation 7/44
Habitat Huggs Rainforest, Huggs Temperate Forest
Size 9 cm Long
Primary Mobility Unknown
Support Exoskeleton (Chitin)
Diet Detritivore (dead plant matter, foliage)
Respiration Passive (Tracheae)
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Hermaphrodite (eggs)


The feathers of the foliage worm atrophied to a nonfunctional size, because the adult worm will live in the foliage of the forest and attachments would hinder its movement. Unlike the adult, the larvae live as parasites inside of the hole of immobile plents such as the auger plent or the double plent. When the larva has become an adult, it will leave the plent through the hole at the top and continue its life in the foliage of the forest. The eggs will be laid inside the holes of the immobile plents near the opening.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Uniwingworms (class Optidorsalia)