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LONG-HORNED VERHOFFIELLA (Verhoeffiella longicornis)


Long-horned verhoeffiella is a springtail. Besides walking, as their name suggests, most springtails can jump. How?
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by means of a special tail-like structure that is folded beneath the body, which snaps against the substrate when released, flinging the animal into the air

by inhabiting substrate that is elastic and allows jumping like a trampoline

with strong jumping hind legs like grasshoppers

with their vestigial wings as if trying to take flight

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