Order Entomobryomorpha - Elongate-bodied Springtails

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Is this even a springtail? - Pseudosinella rolfsi

small and metalic - Lepidocyrtus paradoxus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)

Order Entomobryomorpha (Elongate-bodied Springtails)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Entomobryomorpha Börner 1913

Numbers

the largest collembolan order, with _ spp. in _ genera of 7 families in our area; worldwide, >3,800 spp. in >230 genera of 8 families, arranged into 4 superfamilies (all represented in our area but one monotypic Madagascan family)(1)

Identification

Abdominal segmentation dorsally distinct. Prothoracic dorsal setae absent. Prothoracic tergite indistinct. Trunk always elongate(1)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(1)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of the Collembola

Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 March, 2009 - 6:03pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 1 November, 2011 - 12:21pm

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