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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Isotomidae » Isotominae
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Fuzzy purple springtails
Copyright © 2018 Tina Marie Camp Scheff

Fuzzy purple springtails
White Rocks on Cumberland Mountain on the Kentucky/Virginia border, Harlan County, Kentucky, USA
January 25, 2018
Size: 1.5 mm
These cute, purple, fuzzy springtails were sliding and jumping around on top of a semi-frozen puddle on Cumberland Mountain (White Rocks) on the Virginia/Kentucky Line, USA, on January 25, 2018. They are about 1.5 mm in size (tiny!) I have been told that it is possibly "Family Isotomidae in the Entomobryomorpha superfamily), possibly Desoria sp. at the very least, quite certainly from the Entomobrymorpha superfamily, the "slender springtails"
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Contributed by Tina Marie Camp Scheff on 15 February, 2018 - 8:00pm
Last updated 16 February, 2018 - 9:22am

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 16 February, 2018 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Isotominae
I do like the lovely way you talk about Collembola, Tina! :)
… Frans Janssens, 16 February, 2018 - 9:13am login or register to post comments

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… Ken Wolgemuth, 15 February, 2018 - 8:03pm login or register to post comments

Please click on "edit"...
...and fix the sighting date.

Thanks!
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