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Observer

mitchsmith

Date

November 27, 2014

Description

Symphyla
Identified as Symphyla on Bowerbird by Ken Walker: "Too many legs for a Collembola (which has 6 legs). Symphylans, also known as garden centipedes or pseudocentipedes, are soil-dwelling arthropods of the class Symphyla in the subphylum Myriapoda. Symphyla are small, cryptic myriapods without eyes and without pigment. Juveniles have six pairs of legs, but, over a lifetime of several years, add an additional pair at each moult so that the adult instar has twelve pairs of legs. Lacking eyes, their long antennae serve as sense organs. They have several features linking them to early insects, such as a labium (fused second maxillae), an identical number of head segments and certain features of their legs. About 200 species are known worldwide."

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