 spring tails many different species
pringtails
Richard Houseman
Division of Plant Sciences
Springtails are tiny insects belonging to the order Collembola. About 700 species of springtails occur in North America, and more than 6,000 worldwide (Figure 1). They are wingless and have limited vision. These and other primitive features have convinced some scientists to exclude springtails from the class Insecta, placing them instead in a separate, exclusive class called Collembola. |