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Springtails
Temporal range: early Devonian
to present
Orchesella cincta.jpg
Orchesella cincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Hexapoda
Class:
Entognatha
Subclass:
Collembola

Lubbock, 1870

Springtails (Collembola) are six-legged arthropods. They used to be thought of as proto-insects, but now they are not regarded as insects. They do not have wings.

They live in the soil, and eat fungal hyphae, spores, pollen and other organic material. They need moist soils, and have been known to damage crops.

Images for kids

  • Isotoma Habitus

    Isotoma with visible furcula

  • Snow Flea close up crop

    "Snow flea"

  • CollembolaBMNH

    A species of Sminthurinae (Symphypleona: Sminthuridae)

  • Sminthuridae sp 01

    Dicyrtomina sp. on leaf

  • Anurida maritima

    Anurida maritima on water

  • Tomocerus.sp.1

    Tomocerus sp. from Germany

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Collembola para niños

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