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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Entomobryoidea » Slender Springtails (Entomobryidae) » Orchesellinae » Orchesella » Orchesella bulba
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Unknown Collembola - Orchesella bulba
Copyright © 2015 Susan Leach Snyder

Unknown Collembola - Orchesella bulba
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
November 17, 2015
Size: 2 mm
This individual was captured in a pit trap, placed adjacent to a sand live oak hammock in a sandy gopher tortoise habitat.

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Unknown Collembola - Orchesella bulba Unknown Collembola - Orchesella bulba
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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 24 November, 2015 - 1:37pm
Last updated 7 December, 2015 - 11:24am

Moved
Moved from Orchesella alpa.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 7 December, 2015 - 11:24am login or register to post comments

 
Alpa or bulba?
Did Frans change his mind on the species. He told me earlier that this was alpa. Ok… I see on another post that he did. Thanks!
… Susan Leach Snyder, 7 December, 2015 - 12:57pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Elongate-bodied Springtails.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 24 November, 2015 - 4:21pm login or register to post comments

Orchesella alpa
… Frans Janssens, 24 November, 2015 - 1:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks very much
for this identification. Are those white patches always present on this species?
… Susan Leach Snyder, 24 November, 2015 - 2:02pm login or register to post comments

 
No...
the white patches are in fact subepidermal fat tissue. They often are visible in all kind of Collembola specimens which have been stored in a preservative.
… Frans Janssens, 24 November, 2015 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
for that information. Obviously, I have an awful lot to learn.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 24 November, 2015 - 4:46pm login or register to post comments

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