phytophilousadj.

1890 Cent. Dict. Phytophilous, fond of plants, as an insect.

1904 A. P. Morse Res. N. Amer. Acridiidæ 14 Geophilous locusts are those which freely come into direct contact with the soil and whose local distribution is largely controlled by its characters. Phytophilous locusts..have much closer relations with the vegetal covering of the soil.

1927 Jrnl. Ecol. 15 44 These weedy masses shelter a large phytophilous association which in some respects strongly resembles that of the low ponds, but differs from the latter in the abundance of Caddis larvae.

1958 Q. Rev. Biol. 33 66/2 He classifies the bats themselves as phytophilous, lithophilous, or anthropophilous, depending upon their choice of macrobiotype.

2000 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 27 1207/2 A considerable number of our Scarabaeoidea species are phytophilous.