http://www.collembola.org/slides/tomina01.htm - Last updated on 2001.09.05 by Frans Janssens

Fig.1. Tomocerus minor. Habitus. Brocklehurst, K. © 1998.

Characteristics Tomocerus minor (Lubbock, 1862), (Collembola: Tomoceridae) from a raspberry patch in Warwickshire, UK. Body elongated with segments well separated. Abdominal segment 4 is shorter than segment 3. Adults grey/brown and 4.5 mm long, not including antennae. Skin smooth and not finely granulated at low magnification. Prothorax reduced without dorsal setae (hairs) overhung by thorax segment 2 tergum. Furca well developed - note that furca comprises a base (manubrium) and a pair of 'arms' (dens - plural dentes) with a claw (mucro) on the end of each dens.