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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Globular Springtails (Symphypleona) » Dicyrtomidae » Ptenothricinae » Ptenothrix » Ptenothrix maculosa
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Ptenothrix - Ptenothrix maculosa
Copyright © 2017 Cedric Lee

Ptenothrix - Ptenothrix maculosa
Towsley Canyon, Los Angeles County, California, USA
January 14, 2017
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Contributed by Cedric Lee on 19 January, 2017 - 11:59pm
Last updated 20 January, 2017 - 12:51pm

Moved
Moved from Springtails and allies.
… Cedric Lee, 20 January, 2017 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

Ptenothrix maculosa
… Frans Janssens, 20 January, 2017 - 10:30am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
How do you tell apart P. maculosa from P. beta?
… Cedric Lee, 20 January, 2017 - 12:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Check the posterior dorsal part of the large abdomen
In maculosa there is a longitudinal narrow middorsal stripe.
In beta there is a longitudinal broad middorsal pattern (never a narrow stripe).
Due to the deformed image (a fronto-dorsal perspective), the posterior middorsal stripe seems short, but in reality it is long in maculosa.
… Frans Janssens, 20 January, 2017 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

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