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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Globular Springtails (Symphypleona) » Sminthuroidea » Bourletiellidae » Bourletiella » Garden Springtail (Bourletiella hortensis)
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Really Tiny Creatures - Bourletiella hortensis
Copyright © 2010 Tom Arbour

Really Tiny Creatures - Bourletiella hortensis
Worthington, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
April 6, 2009
Size: very small
Are these possibly some type of nymphs?

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Really Tiny Creatures - Bourletiella hortensis Really Tiny Creatures - Bourletiella hortensis
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Contributed by Tom Arbour on 7 January, 2010 - 5:45pm
Last updated 8 January, 2010 - 5:04am

thanks, Frans
Moved from Springtails and allies.
… v belov, 8 January, 2010 - 5:04am login or register to post comments

Bourletiella hortensis
Given
1. the black body
2. the more pale head
3. the distinctly visible small abdomen
4. the long antennae

Confusion with Neosminthurus is possible based on the other picture of the specimen with short antennae. But in this specimen the antennae have been damaged...
… Frans Janssens, 8 January, 2010 - 4:55am login or register to post comments

Moved to the page visited by the expert; nice pix, Tom!
i would hazard a guess, something akin to Neosminthurus

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 7 January, 2010 - 5:59pm login or register to post comments

looks like Globular Springtails
to me.
… Andrew Williams, 7 January, 2010 - 5:47pm login or register to post comments

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