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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Globular Springtails (Symphypleona) » Sminthuroidea » Sminthuridae » Sminthurinae » Sminthurus » Sminthurus fitchi
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Globular Springtail - Sminthurus fitchi
Copyright © 2007 tom murray

Globular Springtail - Sminthurus fitchi
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
October 3, 2007
Size: 1.3mm

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Globular Springtail - Sminthurus fitchi Globular Springtail - Sminthurus fitchi
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Contributed by tom murray on 3 October, 2007 - 9:07pm
Last updated 5 October, 2007 - 8:34am

Moved
It looks like this one is represented well with a few different looks.
… tom murray, 5 October, 2007 - 8:34am login or register to post comments

Sminthurus fitchi
I figured it out in the mean while:
It is a darker colour form of Sminthurus fitchi.
After looking more carefully at the complete set of pictures you have uploaded recently, it is clear that they all are of the same species. I was confused by the dark colour. Sminthurus fitchi has normally a pale greenisch/yellowish body colour.
But all specimens bear exactly thesame faint pattern laterally on the body.
… Frans Janssens, 5 October, 2007 - 2:47am login or register to post comments

Thanks Frans
Should I just leave it in the genus page for now?
… tom murray, 4 October, 2007 - 8:37pm login or register to post comments

Sminthurus mencenbergae
But I'm not sure... sorry...
… Frans Janssens, 4 October, 2007 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

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