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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola)
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Juvenile Symphylan Perhaps ?
Copyright © 2020 Mardon Erbland

Juvenile Symphylan Perhaps ?
N47° 37' 49.84" W52° 41' 13.13" Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
June 8, 2020
Size: 1.5 mm nose to body rear
Found by digging a small bit of soil from our yard. This was in the soil.

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Juvenile Symphylan Perhaps ? Juvenile Symphylan Perhaps ? Juvenile Symphylan Perhaps ?
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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 9 June, 2020 - 6:12am
Last updated 31 March, 2021 - 8:50pm

Moved
Moved from Millipedes.
… Jeff Brown, 31 March, 2021 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

This is definitely a Collembo
This is definitely a Collembolan.
… Abdulkarim Elnaas, 31 March, 2021 - 6:54pm login or register to post comments

 
And a helpful trick for rulin
And a helpful trick for ruling out Symphylans is that their first instars have more than three pairs of legs (they hatch with 6 to 7 pairs of legs)
… Abdulkarim Elnaas, 31 March, 2021 - 6:57pm login or register to post comments

Honestly it looks more like a
Honestly it looks more like a Collembola or something to me, and I doubt it can be identified. The photos themselves are very nice, but I would recommend this submission be frassed rather than hang out in the unidentified section indefinitely.
… Derek Hennen, 7 January, 2021 - 4:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively
Moved from ID Request.

Definitely a juvenile myriapod, but I would lean more towards a millipede based on body shape and low number of antennal segments.

Without obvious association with adults, I would hesitate to ID any first instar millipede, even to order.
… Jeff Brown, 9 June, 2020 - 7:20am login or register to post comments

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