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.[1]
| Springtails Temporal range: early Devonian
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| Orchesella cincta | |
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| Subclass: | Collembola Lubbock, 1870
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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.[2]
Springtail Media
Isotoma anglicana (Entomobryomorpha) with visible furcula
Allacma fusca (Symphypleona) on rotting wood
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Allacma fusca (Sminthurinae) from Königsforst near Cologne, Germany.
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A species of Sminthurinae (Symphypleona: Sminthuridae)
Dicyrtomina sp. on leaf
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References
- ↑ Gillott, Cedric 2005. Apterygote hexapods. In Entomology. 3rd ed, Berlin: Springer, pp. 113–125. ISBN 978-0-306-44967-3
- ↑ Shaw, Michael W. & Haughs, G. M. (1983). "Damage to potato foliage by Sminthurus viridis (L.)" (PDF). Plant Pathology. 32 (4): 465–466. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.1983.tb02864.x.
Other websites
Media related to Collembola at Wikimedia Commons- List of the Collembola of the World
- General information on Collembola