Slender Entrophs

Found this small dipluran under a plank of wood embedded in soil. It's a bit beat-up, missing part of it's right antennae and it's entire right cerci. Quite likely I'm responsible as they are very fragile things, however they are apparently capable of regrowing such parts over successive moults (see Dr. Minor link below).Diplura is considered the sister group of Insecta. They are six-legged, eyeless, wingless, and have ametabolous development. Characters modern diplurans lack that all true insects possess include the Johnston's organ, a movement and sound sensing antennal organ, and external mouthparts. Dr. Maria Minor from Massay University (NZ) provides a great summary of their biology:soilbugs.massey.ac.nz/diplura.php

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI Français : Campodea - insecte cavernicole dessiné Date 3 December 2011 Source Le Monde végétal , Ernest Flammarion, 1907 Author Gaston Bonnier

Details[edit] Description English: Cerci in Diplura abdomen. At the left: Japyx solifugus Hal. (Dicellurata). At the right: Campodea redii Silv. (Rhabdura). Italiano: Cerci addominali nei Dipluri. A sinistra: Japyx solifugus Hal. (Dicellurata). A destra: Campodea redii Silv. (Rhabdura). Author: Piero Sagnibene (Posted by --gian_d 18:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)) Licensing[edit] Piero Sagnibene from it, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Piero Sagnibene from it This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI Français : Campodea - insecte cavernicole dessiné Date 3 December 2011 Source Le Monde végétal , Ernest Flammarion, 1907 Author Gaston Bonnier

Details[edit] Description English: Cerci in Diplura abdomen. At the left: Japyx solifugus Hal. (Dicellurata). At the right: Campodea redii Silv. (Rhabdura). Italiano: Cerci addominali nei Dipluri. A sinistra: Japyx solifugus Hal. (Dicellurata). A destra: Campodea redii Silv. (Rhabdura). Author: Piero Sagnibene (Posted by --gian_d 18:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)) Licensing[edit] Piero Sagnibene from it, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution: Piero Sagnibene from it This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue

I guess bristletails are not everyone's cup of tea, but I've been fascinated by these tiny insects for ages. They are part of the clean-up crew, feeding on plant matter and dead insects and seem to be seasonal in my garden, appearing under logs and stones at certain times of the year then disappearing again for some months.

Campodea redii uploaded by--White wolf 17:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC) taken from http://www.legambientearcipelagotoscano.it (for the authorization see here) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.htmlGFDLGNU Free Documentation Licensetruetrue This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. This licensing tag was added to this file as part of the GFDL licensing update.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/CC-BY-SA-3.0Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0truetrue

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: A dipluran of the Campodeidae family. Original description on Flickr: One on my 'really difficult to take photos of' list that I periodically have a go at and try to improve on my last attempt. These really are tricky as they run incredibly fast and shift direction all the time and at around 3mm big, that's a lot of body to get in focus. So this is the first decent shot I've taken of one. Just waiting for it to run in a straight line at the same time as being at such an angle that you can get a side shot has taken me 1000 shots and exactly a year. This was made even more difficult by me taking the photo at x8 to get that higher resolution. I took my last OK shots of a dipluran on the 23rd December 2012! This is a member of the Campodeidae, a mostly vegetarian kind of Diplura. This is worth viewing in LARGE to see the details of the curious lateral styliform appendages on the underside of the abdominal segments. These can also be found in Protura, another non-insect hexapod. Date 22 December 2013, 16:58:42 Source Diplura/Two-pronged Bristletail (11499938054) Author Andy Murray

Summary[edit] DescriptionAPI English: A dipluran of the Campodeidae family. Original description on Flickr: One on my 'really difficult to take photos of' list that I periodically have a go at and try to improve on my last attempt. These really are tricky as they run incredibly fast and shift direction all the time and at around 3mm big, that's a lot of body to get in focus. So this is the first decent shot I've taken of one. Just waiting for it to run in a straight line at the same time as being at such an angle that you can get a side shot has taken me 1000 shots and exactly a year. This was made even more difficult by me taking the photo at x8 to get that higher resolution. I took my last OK shots of a dipluran on the 23rd December 2012! This is a member of the Campodeidae, a mostly vegetarian kind of Diplura. This is worth viewing in LARGE to see the details of the curious lateral styliform appendages on the underside of the abdominal segments. These can also be found in Protura, another non-insect hexapod. Date 22 December 2013, 16:58:42 Source Diplura/Two-pronged Bristletail (11499938054) Author Andy Murray

DescriptionAPI I think this one is Campodeidae sp. And interestingly, just like springtails, Diplura have eversible vesicles and the males lay spermataphores Date 23 December 2012, 12:38 Source Diplura Author Andy Murray Camera location 51° 05′ 17.01″ N, 2° 44′ 35.99″ W View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth 51.088058; -2.743330

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