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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha)

Order Entomobryomorpha - Elongate-bodied Springtails

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
springtail - Vertagopus arboreus Springtail-like critters elongate-bodied springtail - Salina banksi springtail - Desoria Lepidocyrtus.01 - Lepidocyrtus Commercial compost Entomobrya sp - Entomobrya confusa Bark springtail - Entomobrya sp - Entomobrya confusa slender springtail
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)
Order Entomobryomorpha (Elongate-bodied Springtails)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Entomobryomorpha Börner 1913
Numbers
the largest collembolan order, with _ spp. in _ genera of 7 families in our area; worldwide, >3,800 spp. in >230 genera of 8 families, arranged into 4 superfamilies (all represented in our area but one monotypic Madagascan family)(1)
Identification
Abdominal segmentation dorsally distinct. Prothoracic dorsal setae absent. Prothoracic tergite indistinct. Trunk always elongate(1)
Range
worldwide and throughout NA(1)
Works Cited
1.Bellinger P.F., Christiansen K.A., Janssens F. (1996‒2023) Checklist of the Collembola of the World
Contributed by John F. Carr on 14 March, 2009 - 6:03pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 1 November, 2011 - 12:21pm

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