कई मिनट विंगलेस प्राइमेटिव कीड़ों में से कोई भी एक विशेष पेटी परिशिष्ट है जो विशेषता को लगभग सतत वसंत पैटर्न की अनुमति देता है; कार्बनिक मलबे या बर्फ या पानी की सतह पर समृद्ध मिट्टी में पाया जाता है

springtails's Usage Examples:

A species of bristle-tail (Machilis maritima) and quite a number of springtails haunt the sea-coast at or below high-water mark.

Springtails and bristle-tails live in damp concealed places - under stones or tree-bark, in moss, and in the decaying vegetable or animal matter which serves as food for most of them.

The springtails have even a wider distribution.

In many genera of springtails a curious post-antennal organ, consisting of sensory structures (often complex in form) surrounded by a firm ring, is to be noticed on the cuticle of the head between the eyes and the feelers.

Most springtails are without air-tubes, and breathe through the general cuticle of the body.

- The Aptera are divided into two divergent sub-orders, theThysanura or bristle-tails, and the Collembola or springtails.

But the bristle-tails and springtails, which form the modern order Aptera, are all without any trace of wings, and, on account of several remarkable archaic characters which they exhibit, there is reason for believing that they are primitively wingless - that they represent an early offshoot which sprang from the ancestral stock of the Hexapoda before organs of flight had been acquired by the class.

This order includes the bristle-tails and the springtails.

Lubbock (Lord Avebury) separated the springtails as a distinct order, the Collembola, and by many students this separation has been maintained.

Latreille to the primitive wingless insects known as springtails and bristletails.

springtails's Meaning':

any of numerous minute wingless primitive insects possessing a special abdominal appendage that allows the characteristic nearly perpetual springing pattern; found in soil rich in organic debris or on the surface of snow or water