Collembola Insecta Arthropoda Animalia

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.

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Collembola of the World - Comprehensive site on all aspects of the Collembola systematics and biology by Frans Janssens.

• Collembola Photo Gallery - Provides a large number of images of springtails, collembola mostly from collembola the UK.
• Checklist of the Collembola - Provides comprehensive information on these hexapods, with a world checklist arthropoda and photographs of several species.[PDF]
• Collembola - Information on these soil-dwelling arthropods, their life history and ecology, arthropoda physical features, economic importance and classification.
• The Biology of the Collembola: The Most Abundant Insects in the World - Article by Steve Hopkin on the springtails, found collembola in vast collembola numbers in diverse habitats.[PDF]
• Springtails - Large image gallery from Iowa State Entomology.
• Collembola: Springtails - Exercise from Invertebrate Anatomy OnLine covering the systematics insecta and external insecta anatomy of these hexapods.
• Gordon Ramel's Collembola Page - An introduction to biology, classification, and ecology of insecta Collembola (Springtails).
• Collembola (Springtails) - Introduction from the Tree of Life project.
• Collembola FAQ - Overview of the Order from LemnaTec

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