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

Unknown Springtail - Orchesella
Naples , Collier County, Florida, USA
April 2, 2015
Size: 1.5 mm
This collembolan was collected in a dry pit trap in an oak scrub in an area adjacent to oak leaf litter and ground lichens. It has a bluish-purple abdomen with some white spotting. The prothorax is white; some of the legs and parts of the fulcra are white. The face has distinctive white patterns on both right and left sides.

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Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 6 April, 2015 - 4:46pm
Last updated 7 April, 2015 - 2:30pm

Moved
Moved from Springtails and allies.
… v belov, 7 April, 2015 - 2:30pm login or register to post comments

Orchesella nr celsa
… Frans Janssens, 7 April, 2015 - 12:55pm login or register to post comments

 
Frans,
could this be a pale version of Orchesella alpha?
… Susan Leach Snyder, 1 January, 2017 - 1:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Terrific,
so this is possibly another new species? Do you think the two different individuals you have identified as Ochesella nr celsa are the same species, or two different species that are "near" Ocesella celsa? The two specimens looked kind of different from one another to me.

Thanks so much for your identification.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 7 April, 2015 - 3:45pm login or register to post comments

 
Same species
but different instars. Do you have a dorsal shot of the 2nd specimen?
… Frans Janssens, 7 April, 2015 - 4:35pm login or register to post comments

 
No,
I don't have a photo, but I kept the many specimens I captured in the dry pit traps together in a vial, so finding the same one may be difficult, but I will try.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 7 April, 2015 - 4:40pm login or register to post comments

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