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Genus Sminthurinus

Sminthurinus bimaculatus ? - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

Symphypleona - Sminthurinus? - Sminthurinus atrapallidus

Polka dot collembola - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)

Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails)

Superfamily Katiannoidea

Family Katiannidae

Genus Sminthurinus

Explanation of Names

Sminthurinus Börner, 1901

Numbers

7 spp. in our area(1), >90 spp. worldwide(2)

Identification

In Dicyrtoma the 4th antennal segment is quite short compared to the 3rd. In Sminthurinus the 4th antennal segment is much longer than the 3rd and the 4th antennal segment is not subsegmented. Frans Jansens' comment

Range

nearly worldwide and throughout NA(2)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	Checklist of the Collembola

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 12 July, 2006 - 11:47am
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 24 November, 2020 - 11:17am

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