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Unknown - Entomobrya
Copyright © 2014 Susan Leach Snyder

Unknown - Entomobrya
Naples, Collier County, Florida, USA
February 6, 2014
Size: 1.5 mm
After returning to the strangler fig tree where the first specimen was collected, I found many more collembolans inside folded leaves. Among the living individuals, and molted exoskeletons, were what appeared to be eggs. Many of the eggs had hatched. I am attaching a photograph of two living individuals and eggs.
Contributed by Susan Leach Snyder on 23 February, 2014 - 9:37am
Last updated 23 February, 2014 - 4:17pm

pls do not link images unless they show the very same individual
Moved from Isotomidae.
… v belov, 23 February, 2014 - 4:17pm

Entomobrya sp.
… Frans Janssens, 23 February, 2014 - 12:46pm

 
Thank you.
I appreciate your identification to genus.
… Susan Leach Snyder, 23 February, 2014 - 12:47pm

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