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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Springtails and allies (Collembola) » Globular Springtails (Symphypleona) » Dicyrtomidae » Dicyrtominae » Dicyrtomina

Genus Dicyrtomina

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springtail - Dicyrtomina minuta Dicyrtomina? - Dicyrtomina minuta springtail - Dicyrtomina minuta Very Tiny Bug - Dicyrtomina minuta - female Globular Springtail - Dicyrtomina minuta - female Dicyrtomina minuta? - Dicyrtomina minuta Globular Springtail - Dicyrtomina minuta Ptenothrix? - Dicyrtomina minuta
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)
Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails)
Family Dicyrtomidae
Subfamily Dicyrtominae
Genus Dicyrtomina
Identification
To distinguish Dicyrtomina from Ptenothrix check the middorsal markings. 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 January, 2009
Internet References
Zootaxa. Taxonomy
Dicyrtomina of UK
Checklist of the Collembola
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 12 November, 2006 - 11:03am
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban
Last updated 27 December, 2010 - 10:37am

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