Stenacidia violacea, information
Class: COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870
Order: SYMPHYPLEONA Börner, 1901
Family: Sminthurididae Börner, 1906
Species: Stenacidia violacea (Reuter, 1881). Rare.
Small springtail, females are 0.7 mm males 0.5 mm. The animals of the photos I
have found on a heath site under a loose branch on the ground. Men are
conspicuous by the box shaped abdomen with two rows of large
setae (hairs) on the back and lots of long setae on the legs.
The males of this species have corkscrew-shaped antennas, at the mating dance,
he sticks them to the antennae of the female.
Species that can be confused with it: non.