Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In more general terms, Entomobryidae tend to be relatively large springtails, reaching 2 mm or more. They may have stripes, bands or streaks of blue, red or purple. Some species are all blue or all white, the latter tending to also have reduced ocelli. Cave-dwelling species have long appendages and the claws are often modified. [5]
Folsomia candida has an unpigmented, slender body up to 3 mm (0.1 in) in length. The head bears a pair of four-segmented antennae and a pair of post-antennal organs but no eyespots. The head bears a pair of four-segmented antennae and a pair of post-antennal organs but no eyespots.
Springtails (class Collembola) form the largest of the three lineages of modern hexapods that are no longer considered insects.Although the three lineages are sometimes grouped together in a class called Entognatha because they have internal mouthparts, they do not appear to be any more closely related to one another than they are to all insects, which have external mouthparts.
Hypogastrura nivicola is a species of dark blue springtail. Its English name in the United States is snow flea , but there are also additional springtails [ 1 ] (and insects) called by that name. They are often seen jumping about on the surface of snow on a warm winter's day in North America.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The subphylum Hexapoda (from Greek for 'six legs') or hexapods comprises the largest clade of arthropods and includes most of the extant arthropod species. It includes the crown group class Insecta (true insects), as well as the much smaller clade Entognatha, which includes three classes of wingless arthropods that were once considered insects: Collembola (springtails), Protura (coneheads) and ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Cockroaches are among the fastest insect runners and, at full speed, adopt a bipedal run. More sedate locomotion is seen in the well- camouflaged stick insects ( Phasmatodea ). A small number of species such as Water striders can move on the surface of water; their claws are recessed in a special groove, preventing the claws from piercing the ...