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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Entomobryoidea » Slender Springtails (Entomobryidae) » Seira » Seira bipunctata
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spring tail ? - Seira bipunctata
Copyright © 2009 Virginia Malone

spring tail ? - Seira bipunctata
Hondo, Medina County, Texas, USA
November 8, 2009
Size: ~1mm
Found this in dry leaf litter, caught it on piece of clear tape.

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Contributed by Virginia Malone on 8 November, 2009 - 2:56pm
Last updated 24 November, 2009 - 5:27am

Moved
Moved from Springtails and allies.
… Charley Eiseman, 24 November, 2009 - 5:27am login or register to post comments

Seira bipunctata
Probably...
It is a juvenile specimen. And almost descaled, due to the technique used to catch it with a tape... When alive its body should be covered by microscopic and translucent scales.
… Frans Janssens, 11 November, 2009 - 4:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 8 November, 2009 - 4:08pm login or register to post comments

Sure looks like one to me...
with the furcula extended.



No clue as to the species, though.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 8 November, 2009 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

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