#tomoceridae

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This six-legged little critter is not an insect, although once was considered to be. It is a species of springtail, whose ancestral fossil dates back over 400 million years ago.

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#1533 - Fam. Tomoceridae

A family of springtails, inside the Entomobryomorpha. Ths family and others in the Entomobryomorpha are longer and thinner than the more familiar globular and ovoid springtails. They’re reasonably diverse, but I don’t have much information on them.

Shaken out of a Eucalypt in the Dryandra Woodlands

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[drhoz]

#2379 - Order Entomobryomorpha - Elongate Springtails

One of the three main groups of springtails, tiny hexapods related to insects. Formerly treated as the superfamily Entomobryoidea.

Best distinguished from the other springtail groups by body shape - Symphypleona are almost spherical, Poduromorpha are also very plump but have a more oval, but the Entomobryomorpha are slimmest springtails. They either have short legs and antennae, or long legs and antennae, and well-developed furculae that they use to jump. I suspect this one is in the Tomoceridae. It might even be Tomocerus minor, a species found from the Arctic all the way to New Zealand.

Pohokura, North Island, New Zealand

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i met this extraordinarily fancy springtail in the forest, we were both interested in the same mushroom.