Members of genus Bryocyclops are either epigean species,
known from several types of semi-terrestrial habitats such
as moist mosses, wet leaf litter, bromeliad and other plants’
leaf arm pits (Phytothelmata) or they are subterranean,
usually collected from groundwater in alluvium or karstic
caves (see Table 1). So far, four species (including the new
one) have been described from subterranean habitats; one
from well (interstitial aquifers) and three from caves (karstic
aquifers). In karstic caves the following species have been
found: B. absalomi Por, 1981, from Soreq cave (Israel)