CAMPODEA  , a small whitish wingless

insect with long flexible antennae and a pair of elongated caudal appendages . The best-known species (Campodea staphylinus) has a wide distribution and is equally at home in the warm valleys of south Europe, in the subarctic conditions of mountain tops, in caves and in woods and gardens in England . It lives in damp places under stones, fallen trees or in rotten wood and leaves . Although blind, it immediately crawls away on exposure to the light into the nearest crevice or other sheltered spot, feeling the way with its antennae . Its action is characteristically serpentine, recalling that of a centipede . Campodea is one of the bristle-tailed or thysanurous insects of the order Aptera (q.v.) .