BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
COLLEMBOLA (springtails)
Further Information
| Notes (MWS) | Primitive wingless insects without metamorphosis. Springtails are named for the forked springing organ which most species have at the tip of the abdomen. This is held under the animal and can be forcefully extended causing it to jump many times its own length. A very abundant group of organisms, in all terrestrial habitats. Their faecal pellets are a major component of many soils, becoming almost the only constituent in some cases. |
Hopkin, S.P., 2007 |
Sets of Photographs
These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.
| Taxon | Summary |  |
 |
Date | Vice-county | Country |
|---|
| Collembola | Living animal | 5 | 5 | 21 Oct 2008 | North Somerset | England |
Subtaxa
| Rank | Taxon |  |
 |
|
|---|
| Family | DICYRTOMIDAE (a family of springtails) | 1 | 2 | |
| Family | ENTOMOBRYIDAE (a family of springtails) | 1 | 10 | |
| Family | ISOTOMIDAE (a family of springtails) | 1 | 2 | |
| Family | NEANURIDAE (a family of springtails) | 1 | 10 | 8 |
| Family | TOMOCERIDAE (springtails) | 2 | 1 | 8 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Checklist of the Collembola of the World: http://www.collembola.org (World) | Checklist of the Collembola of the World |
| Gough, H.J., 1971 (Very out of date) | A Preliminary Survey of the Collembola of Skokholm |
| Guthrie, M., 1989 | Animals of the Surface Film |
| Steve Hopkin: http://www.stevehopkin.co.uk | Steve Hopkin |
| Hopkin, S.P., 2007 | A Key to the Collembola (Springtails) of Britain and Ireland |
| Lubbock, J., 1873 | Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 5 general literature references to COLLEMBOLA (springtails)
COLLEMBOLA may also be covered by literature listed under:
|
BIOTA (living things) |
Eukaryota (eukaryotes) |
ANIMALIA (animals) |
ARTHROPODA (arthropods) |
BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk)
has 4 feeding and other relationships of COLLEMBOLA (springtails)
References
| Hopkin, S.P., 2007 | A Key to the Collembola (Springtails) of Britain and Ireland |
