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:''Not to be confused with [[Xylophagia]]''
[[Image:Workertermite1.jpg|350px|right|thumb|Worker [[termite]]]]
'''Xilofagia''' es un término usado en [[ecología]] para describir los hábitos de un animal [[herbívoro]] cuya dieta consiste principalmente (a menudo exclusivamente) en [[madera]]. La palabra deriva del [[griego]] ''ξυλοφάγος'' (''xulophagos'') "comer madera", de ''ξύλον'' (''xulon'') "madera" + ''φάγειν'' (''phagein'') "comer" y era el antiguo nombre griego usado para denominar un tipo de [[gusano]].<ref>[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2371780 Xulophagos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', at Perseus]</ref>.
==Insectos xilófagos==
Most such animals are [[arthropod]]s, primarily [[insect]]s of various kinds, in which the behavior is quite common, and found in many different [[order (biology)|orders]]. It is not uncommon for insects to specialize to various degrees; in some cases, they limit themselves to certain plant groups (a [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] specialization), and in others, it is the physical characteristics of the wood itself (e.g., state of decay, hardness, whether the wood is alive or dead, or the choice of [[heartwood]] versus [[sapwood]] versus [[bark]]).
Many xylophagous insects have [[symbiotic]] [[protozoa]] and/or [[bacteria]] in their [[digestive system]] which assist in the breakdown of [[cellulose]], others (e.g., the [[termite]] family [[Termitidae]]) possess their own [[cellulase]]. Others, especially among the groups feeding on decaying wood, apparently derive much of their nutrition from the digestion of various [[fungi]] that are growing amidst the wood fibers. Such insects often carry the [[spore]]s of the fungi in special structures on their bodies (called "[[mycangium|mycangia]]"), and infect the host tree themselves when they are laying their eggs.
==Examples of wood-eating animals==
*[[Bark beetle]]s
*[[Giant Panda]]
*[[Horntail]]s
*[[Termites]]
*''[[Panaque]]'' (catfish)
*[[Gribble]]s
*[[Shipworm]]s
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