Tomocerus minor

{{Short description|Species of springtail}}

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| genus = Tomocerus

| species = minor

| authority = (Lubbock, 1862){{Cite web |title=ITIS standard report - Tomocerus minor (Lubbock, 1862) |url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=99889 |access-date=12 February 2015 |publisher=Integrated Taxonomic Information System}}

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Tomocerus minor is a species of springtail in the family Tomoceridae. It is widespread from the Arctic to Europe, Western and Central Asia down to the Sino-Japanese, Northern and Pacific North America, Hawaii, the Caribbean mainland and New Zealand.{{Cite web |last=Frans Janssens |title=Checklist of the Collembola |url=http://www.collembola.org/taxa/collembo.htm |access-date=March 24, 2008}}

Tomocerus minor can be up to {{convert|4.5|mm}} long,{{Cite web |last=Steve Hopkin |title=Tomocerus minor in the UK and Ireland |url=http://www.stevehopkin.co.uk/collembolamaps/Entomobryomorpha/351TOmin/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211075200/http://www.stevehopkin.co.uk/collembolamaps/Entomobryomorpha/351TOmin/ |archive-date=February 11, 2012 |access-date=March 24, 2008}} with antennae that are shorter than the body and a characteristic uniform bluish iridisation.