Apterygota
(Primitively Wingless Insects)

from Orange County, California

Photographed and compiled by Peter J. Bryant (pjbryant@uci.edu
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, 
University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
and Ron Hemberger

Collembola (Springtails) (Sometimes classified separately from the Insects. See Checklist of the Collembola of the World)

Order Entomobryomorpha

Entomobrya atrocincta

Entomobrya multifasciata

Entomobrya unostrigata

Isotoma viridis

Unidentified
Order Poduromorpha Order Poduromorpha, Family Hypogastruridae   Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails)

Poduromorpha

Ceratophysella sp.

Video of white Poduromorph.

In soil at Laguna Beach, Orange
County, CA. 2-19-09. © Peter J. Bryant

 

Order Archaeognatha (Jumping Bristletails), Family Machilidae

Order Zygentoma (Silverfish, firebrats, and allies), Family Lepismatidae

Bristletail,
Trigoniophthalmus alternatus

Bristletail,
Ctenolepisma lineata

Gray Silverfish,
Ctenolepisma longicaudata

Common Silverfish,
Lepisma saccharina

Firebrat,
Thermobia domestica