Springtail

Springtails (Collembola) are six-legged arthropods. They used to be thought of as proto-insects, but now they are not regarded as insects. They do not have wings.

Springtails Temporal range: early Devonian to present
Orchesella cincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Entognatha
Subclass:	Collembola Lubbock, 1870

They live in the soil, and eat fungal hyphae, spores, pollen and other organic material. They need moist soils, and have been known to damage crops.

Springtail Media

• Isotoma Habitus.jpg

  Isotoma anglicana (Entomobryomorpha) with visible furcula

• Deutonura monticola - Flickr - Philippe Garcelon.jpg

  Deutonura monticola (Poduromorpha)

• Allacma fusca on rotting wood.ogv

  Allacma fusca (Symphypleona) on rotting wood

• Neelus murinus (14048834018).jpg

  Neelus murinus (14048834018)

• Brachystomella parvula juvenile (8204572060).jpg

  Brachystomella parvula juvenile (8204572060)

• Dark.round.springtail.1.jpg

  Allacma fusca (Sminthurinae) from Königsforst near Cologne, Germany.

• Orchesella cincta (6875710316).jpg

  Orchesella cincta (6875710316)

• Snow Flea close up crop.JPG

  en:Snow flea, close up. Cropped from version on en:wp.

• CollembolaBMNH.jpg

  A species of Sminthurinae (Symphypleona: Sminthuridae)

• Sminthuridae sp 01.jpg

  Dicyrtomina sp. on leaf

Other websites

• 16x16px Media related to Collembola at Wikimedia Commons
• List of the Collembola of the World
• General information on Collembola Archived 2019-06-07 at the Wayback Machine