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 multifasciata

Entomobrya unostrigata

Isotoma viridis

Willowsia buski
Order Entomobryomorpha (cont.) Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails) Order Poduromorpha
Order Poduromorpha, Family Hypogastruridae

Unidentified

Poduromorpha

Video of white Poduromorph.

In soil at Laguna Beach, Orange
County, CA. 2-19-09.
Copyright: Peter J. Bryant (pjbryant@uci.edu). Contact for originals


Ceratophysella sp.
     
Order Microcoryphia,
Family Machilidae (Bristletails)
Order Thysanura, Family Lepismatidae (Firebrats and Silverfish)

Bristletail, Trigoniophthalmus alternatus

Common Silverfish, Lepisma saccharina

Gray Silverfish, Ctenolepisma longicaudata

Firebrat, Thermobia domestica