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Collembola - What the heck are they?

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Collembola What the heck are they game quiz
"Well, I'll tell you, Collembola are very small six-legged arthropods that are found nearly everywhere on earth, but rarely noticed. See how many of these facts you know (or can guess) about Collembola."

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1. Which of the following best describes the taxonomic status of the Collembola?
    Neither
    Insecta
    Entognatha
    Both


2. Collembola are perhaps better known by their common name. What is it?
    Slingbacks
    Silverfish
    Springtails
    Slugbugs


3. Collembola contain a few morphological structures that are unique in the animal kingdom. These structures are the:
    cuticle, palpiger, mushroom body
    mandible, ocelli, ytterbium
    furcula, retinaculum, collophore
    galea, cardo, staves


4. One species of springtail is a documented agricultural pest. What is it?
    Poppy Skeletonizer
    Snow Flea
    Lucerne Flea
    Oriental Rat Flea


5. Collembola are unlike other insect-like animals in the number of abdominal segment they possess. How many do they have?
    6
    4
    5
    3


6. With regard to collembola, what's so special about the Rhynie chert of Scotland?
    Almost 90% of the world's springtails are found there.
    The oldest terrestrial arthropod fossil ever found (of a springtail) was from there.
    The first and only World Congress on Collembola was held there.
    They are the only organism's that can digest Rhynie chert.


7. What scientific name was given to the oldest fossil known of a springtail?
    Rhynieaesta brassicae
    Rhynora anteceta
    Rhynieaetta flora
    Rhyniella praecursor


8. One of these is not a family in the Collembola:
    Lepismatidae
    Isotomidae
    Sminthuridae
    Tomoceridae


9. Which of these hexapod orders are the Collembola most closely related to?
    Diplura
    Blattodea
    Odonata
    Hymenoptera


10. Collembola have been inmplicated in cases of delusory parasitosis.
    True
    False


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Compiled Jun 28 12