Directory of Collembola Resources

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Collembolans are small hexapods rarely exceeding 5 mm in length. The 7,000 known species are found in a variety of habitats including leaf litter, soil, shorelines, water surfaces, intertidal zones, snow fields, and caves. They are abundant in the habitats they frequent where they can be the most abundant arthropods. As hexapods, springtails possess a body with head, thorax, and abdomen. The thorax has three segments, each with a pair of legs but no wings.

Resources in This Category

• Checklist of the Collembola

  http://www.collembola.org/
  Provides comprehensive information on these hexapods, with a world checklist and photographs of several species.

• Collembola

  http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent425/library/compendium/collembola.html
  Information on these soil-dwelling arthropods, their life history and ecology, physical features, economic importance and classification.

• Collembola (Springtails)

  http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Collembola&contgroup=Hexapoda
  Introduction from the Tree of Life project.

• Collembola: Springtails

  http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/hexapods/collembola.html
  The characteristics of these hexapods, their life cycle, feeding and habitat.

• Gordon Ramel's Collembola Page

  http://www.earthlife.net/insects/collembo.html
  An introduction to biology, classification, and ecology of Collembola (Springtails).

• Snow Flea: Hypogastrura nivicola

  http://fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/snow_flea.htm
  Photographs and information on this insect.

• Springtails

  http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/collembola/
  Large image gallery from Iowa State Entomology.

• The Biology of the Collembola: The Most Abundant Insects in the World

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources-rx/files/35feat_springtails_most_abundent-3056.pdf
  Article by Steve Hopkin on the springtails, found in vast numbers in diverse habitats.

 

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