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The furcula is the "spring" for which the Collembola are given the name springtails. Proturans, sometimes referred to as "coneheads", do not have eyes or antennae. They possess a telson and abdominal styli thought to be vestigial legs. Diplurans have a pair of caudal cerci, from which their name, meaning "two-tailed", is derived. They also ...
Springtails (class Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects. Although the three lineages are sometimes grouped together in a class called Entognatha because they have internal mouthparts , they do not appear to be any more closely related to one another than they are to all ...
Sminthurididae (Börner, 1906), not to be confounded with: Sminthuridae (Lubbock, 1862), is a family of globular springtails in the order Symphypleona. There are about 5 genera and more than 40 described species in Sminthurididae. [1] [2] [3] Sphaeridia pumilis
Sminthurus with spermatophore. Sminthurus viridis is a member of the Collembola, the springtails, an order in the subphylum Hexapoda.The species is known by common names such as clover springtail, [1] lucerne flea, [2] or lucerne earth flea.
Sminthurides aquaticus (Bourlet, 1843) (water springtail) Sminthurides armatus Bretfeld, 2000; Sminthurides assimilis (Krausbauer, 1898) Sminthurides aureolus Maynard, 1951; Sminthurides bifidus Mills, 1934; Sminthurides biniserratus (Salmon, 1951) Sminthurides cruciatus Axelson, 1905; Sminthurides globocerus Folsom & Mills, 1938; Sminthurides ...
Podura aquatica, the water springtail, is a species of springtail, one of only four described species in the family Poduridae. It is an abundant species with a Holarctic distribution. As its common and scientific names suggest, this is an exclusively aquatic species, living its whole life as a scavenger on the surface of all kinds of still water.
Allacma fusca in Estonia. Allacma fusca is a large species of springtail with a dark brown globular abdomen; adults reach a length of around 3.5 mm (0.14 in). [3] There is often a "snowflake"-like marking on the abdomen, which is most noticeable in paler coloured individuals. [4]
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