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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Poduromorpha » Onychiuroidea » Onychiuridae

Family Onychiuridae

Classification · Numbers · Remarks · Works Cited
What is it? - Hymenaphorura cocklei Onychiuridae Protaphorura ? Poduromorpha 2 - Protaphorura Poduromorpha 12 Plot 116 - Protaphorura Poduromorpha 5 - Protaphorura Collembola - white, no eyes Unknown Onychiuroid - Onychiurus reluctus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)
Order Poduromorpha
Superfamily Onychiuroidea
Family Onychiuridae
Numbers
~?40 spp. in 27 genera of 2 subfamilies in our area(1) (a single sp. of Lophognathellinae, the rest are in Onychiurinae), close to 600 spp. in >50 genera worldwide, arranged in 3 subfamilies(2)
Remarks
a member of the superfamily Onychiuroidea that includes 2 more families, both also represented in our area(2) (but not yet in the guide)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Bellinger P.F., Christiansen K.A., Janssens F. (1996‒2023) Checklist of the Collembola of the World
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 29 December, 2008 - 9:36am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 22 November, 2011 - 6:55am

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