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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Elongate-bodied Springtails (Entomobryomorpha) » Entomobryoidea » Slender Springtails (Entomobryidae) » Seira
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011212Springtail - Seira
Copyright © 2012 Ken Allen

011212Springtail - Seira
Hillsborough County, Florida, USA
January 12, 2012
Size: >1mm
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Contributed by Ken Allen on 12 January, 2012 - 9:06pm
Last updated 13 January, 2012 - 1:40pm

Moved
Moved from Slender Springtails.
… Ken Allen, 13 January, 2012 - 1:40pm login or register to post comments

Seira sp.
Note the scale cover has been removed, revealing the pale intrinsic body colour.
… Frans Janssens, 13 January, 2012 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you Frans. Saying that the scale cover has been
removed, do you mean by other than natural causes?
… Ken Allen, 13 January, 2012 - 1:38pm login or register to post comments

 
I have no idea...
how the scales were removed. In natural circumstances the scales should remain present. They protect the specimen against dehydratation. Possibly the scales were rubbed off by accident? Anyway, this specimen will soon moult to produce as such a new scale cover. If not it will dehydrate.
… Frans Janssens, 13 January, 2012 - 2:05pm login or register to post comments

 
I do not know either. This individual was very much alive
and active when I took the photo. It had not been taken as a specimen.
… Ken Allen, 13 January, 2012 - 3:06pm login or register to post comments

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