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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Isotomidae
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Springtail in fungus
Copyright © 2007 Stephen Luk

Springtail in fungus
Guelph, Wellington, Ontario, Canada
April 10, 2007
Size: 1.5 mm
There was a pair of these Elongate-bodied Springtails in a crevice on the surface of the soggy polypore fungus that I collected yesterday. An Isotomid, I'm sure, but I'm not sure about genus given the patterning and thick antennae.
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Contributed by Stephen Luk on 11 April, 2007 - 2:29pm
Last updated 23 December, 2007 - 10:00am

Moved
Moved from Elongate-bodied Springtails.
… john and jane balaban, 23 December, 2007 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

Isotomidae indeed
Given the short antennae it could be Vertagopus, but also Proisotoma. The other picture, of the specimen in profile, with thick posterior abdominal segments suggest it could be Parisotoma.
… Frans Janssens, 12 April, 2007 - 3:41am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Frans
I guess that's as far as I can get for this one ... pushing my camera's limits.
… Stephen Luk, 12 April, 2007 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

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