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Entomobryinae
Entomobryidae, sometimes called "slender springtails", is a family of springtails characterised by having an enlarged fourth abdominal segment and a well-developed furcula. Species in this family may be heavily scaled and can be very colourful. The scale-less Entomobryidae are commonly caught in pitfall traps around the planet, and also occur in canopy faunas high up in trees (notably Entomobrya nivalis, very common throughout Europe if not the Northern Hemisphere). There are more than 700 described species
14 branches of this subfamily, most-observed first

Entomobrya
genusEntomobrya

Homidia
genusHomidia

Sinella
genusSinella

Entomobryoides
genusEntomobryoides

Lepidobrya
genusLepidobrya

Lepidosira
genusLepidosira

Coecobrya
genusCoecobrya
Drepanura
genusDrepanura

Calx
genusCalx

Haloentomobrya
genusHaloentomobrya
Mesentotoma
genusMesentotoma
Isotobrya
genusIsotobrya

Himalanura
genusHimalanura
Urewera
genusUrewera
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 373422.