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Springtail - Orchesella villosa

Springtail - Orchesella villosa
Cache National Forest, Cache County, Utah, USA
April 16, 2010
Size: 6 mm
Size is from head to tail, no antennae. The first one of these I've seen so I thought I'd show it off. My ID skills put it in the family Isotomidae

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Orchesella villosa
Well done, John. Orchesella is easily recognised by its subsegmented antennal segments. Note short and long antennal segments. In Isotomidae they are subequal in length (iso=thesame, tom=part).
It is a juvenile specimen.

Use this key to find the family:
http://www.collembola.org/key/bugguide.htm

Moved
Moved from ID Request. "Looks like" Orchesella but I can't tell these apart except by color.

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