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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Entomobryoidea » Slender Springtails (Entomobryidae) » Lepidocyrtinae » Pseudosinella » Pseudosinella rolfsi
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Pseudosinella sp.? - Pseudosinella rolfsi
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

Pseudosinella sp.? - Pseudosinella rolfsi
Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
March 14, 2008
Found under a board at a community garden.
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Contributed by tom murray on 14 March, 2008 - 5:52pm
Last updated 15 March, 2008 - 7:34am

Frans
These weren't with ants, just a group of them under a board in a garden, so I think this is the right identification.
… tom murray, 15 March, 2008 - 7:34am login or register to post comments

Pseudosinella rolfsi, tentativelly.
Else Cyphoderus similis. Both lack eyes, have scales and a whitish body colour, have a laterally expanded mesothorax ('broad shoulders'). To distinguish them one has to see the furca. Pseudosinella have a very small mucro, while in Cyphoderus it is relatively large.
Also: Cyphoderus lives in ant nests.

Checkout the pictures of Pseudosinella rolfsi that I have IDed in error as 'Cyphoderus similis' (currently still under Cyphoderus similis of Jim McClarin), to see how easy it is to confuse both species. But the furca revealed it was not Cyphoderus but Pseudosinella. Jim still has to move the records...
For the correct ID, see
http://www.collembola.org/taxa/lepiinae.htm
… Frans Janssens, 15 March, 2008 - 3:46am login or register to post comments

 
Frans, we moved that series for Jim
Are any of the other images currently at Cyphoderus misplaced? Put comments on them and we will move them also if necessary. Thanks for all the information you share!
… john and jane balaban, 15 March, 2008 - 10:12am login or register to post comments

 
Current Cyphoderus images are correct
... as far as I can see. All remaining records are associated with ant nests.
… Frans Janssens, 16 March, 2008 - 3:18am login or register to post comments

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