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Caverna Toca Juparanã, crédito: Rabelo L.M.

It looks like a very tiny isopod. It’s 1mm long.
I took a small piece of liverwort growing “wild” in a greenhouse with me for microscopy and later noticed this moving in the sample I took.

8-10mm

Inside son doong cave

All similar animals were found on leaves and vegetation,not on ground. No conglobation.
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In rotten log

Many colour forms.

I recorded this (or a similar) species in abundance from tea tree forests on King Island see: https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/189341607

Found in dry klein karoo habitat under a rock. Species unknown

Under rocks beneath wrack heap.

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Carol reccee. Suggested Bethalus species. Isopoda.

Damp to wet sclerophyll forest along steep gully.
Beneath wood.

This species are larger than cubaris murina