#2379 - Order Entomobryomorpha - Elongate Springtails
One of the three main groups of springtails, tiny hexapods related to insects. Formerly treated as the superfamily Entomobryoidea.
Best distinguished from the other springtail groups by body shape - Symphypleona are almost spherical, Poduromorpha are also very plump but have a more oval, but the Entomobryomorpha are slimmest springtails. They either have short legs and antennae, or long legs and antennae, and well-developed furculae that they use to jump. I suspect this one is in the Tomoceridae. It might even be Tomocerus minor, a species found from the Arctic all the way to New Zealand.
Pohokura, North Island, New Zealand













