Description: L: 2-3 mm Characteristics: These globular springtails are dark brown, llegs and head brighter then the body. The base of the body shows a lightish „Y“-marking and bright bristles. Compound eyes composed of eight ommatidia (single eyes). Habitat moist habitats near to the ground surface. food humus / detritus (Humusbildner) Phylum: Arthropoda LATREILLE, 1829 (arthropods, Gliederfüßer) Subphylum: Hexapoda BLAINVILLE, 1816 Class: Entognatha STUMMER-TRAUNFELS, 1891 (Sackkiefler) Order: Collembola LUBBOCK, 1870 (collembolans or springtails, Springschwämze) Suborder:Symphypleona BÖRNER, 1901 Superfamily: Sminthuroidea BRETFELD, 1994 Family: Sminthuridae LUBBOCK, 1862 (globular springtails, Kugelspringer) Subfamily: Sminthurinae LUBBOCK, 1862 [sensu DEHARVENG, L, 2004] Genus: Allacma BÖRNER, 1906 Allacma fusca LINNAEUS, 1758 [det. Frans Janssens, 2013, based on photos] more info:
www.naturespot.org.uk/species/allacma-fusca more info (German):
www.naturspaziergang.de/Andere/Collembola/Allacma_fusca.htm Germany, vic. Müden (Aller), 05.07.2013 IMG_1536. Date: 5 July 2013, 20:58. Source:
Globular spring tail - Kugelspringer (Collembola: Sminthuridae). Author:
gbohne from Berlin, Germany. Camera location
52° 32′ 01.06″ N, 10° 20′ 04.95″ E View all coordinates using:
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Google Earth 52.533627; 10.334707.