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Genus Ptenothrix

Globular Springtail - Ptenothrix unicolor

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)

Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails)

Family Dicyrtomidae

Subfamily Ptenothricinae

Genus Ptenothrix

Numbers

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

Identification

In Dicyrtomina there is almost always a kind of cross-like light pigmentation middorsally; in Ptenothrix the middorsal pigmentation is more variable. --Frans Janssens, 13 Jan 2009

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(2)

Remarks

a member of the worldwide subfamily Ptenothricinae that includes 16 spp. in 2 genera in our area(1) and >100 spp. in 3 genera worldwide(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 tom murray on 18 October, 2006 - 6:28am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, v belov
Last updated 1 November, 2011 - 4:11pm

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