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Symphypleona; Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus

Symphypleona; Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus
Avondale, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
January 18, 2023
Size: ~1 mm

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Collembola; Symphypleona; Katiannidae; Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus Symphypleona; Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus Symphypleona; Katiannidae; Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus

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Sminthurinus sp.
Indeed. The pattern is kind of similar to that of S. elegans.

 
Frans Janssens
Could you take a look at this one again, when you have time please? An aspiring entomologist on iNaturalist ID'd to S. elegans.

 
I can only repeat
what I said before : it has a pattern similar to that of S. elegans.
So the aspiring entomologist on iNaturalist apparently did also notice that.
But given we cannot see any diagnostic characters of elegans, I cannot confirm it is elegans. Checkout collembola.org for more detailed pics of elegans.

 
Thank you,
Will dig a little further using the link provided. These little ones might return in a month or two.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

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