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    • Diplura
  • English
    • two-pronged bristletails

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Recent Observations

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Observer

kueda

Date

Feb 19, 2010 09:31 AM PST

Description

First dipluran that I've ever noticed, I think. Of course, I forgot the name while I was looking at it, but I recognized it was one of the minor hexapods. Need to get my macro flash working again...

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Description from Wikipedia

The order Diplura is one of the four groups of hexapods, alongside insects, springtails and Protura. They are sometimes called "two-pronged bristletails". Around 800 species have been described, of which around 70 occur in North America, 12 in Great Britain and two in Australia.

No range data available.