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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
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Onychiuridae
Family Onychiuridae
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Collembola (Springtails and allies)
Order
Poduromorpha
Superfamily
Onychiuroidea
Family
Onychiuridae
Explanation of Names
Onychiuridae Lubbock 1867
Numbers
~?40 spp. in 27 genera of 2 subfamilies in our area
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1
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(a single sp. of Lophognathellinae, the rest are in Onychiurinae), close to 600 spp. in >50 genera worldwide, arranged in 3 subfamilies
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2
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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 3 December, 2023 - 9:13pm