This is a common and widespread species. Most records are from compost and rich organic matter. Each tibiotarsus only has one clavate tenant seta and the empodium of the foot tapers gradually and does not possess a lamella (Fig. 1). In Hypogastrura manubrialis the maxillary lamella 1 has an expanded 'double-ciliated' apex (Figs. 2, 3). The body setae are short and of similar length (Fig. 6) and the mucro is distinctively long and pointed (Fig. 7).

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Fig. 1 (above): Tibiotarsus of third leg of Hypogastrura manubrialis collected from Blandford, Dorset in November 1946 by H.J. Moore. The empodium (emp) tapers gradually and does not possess a lamella.

Figs. 2 & 3 (above): Maxilla of Hypogastrura manubrialis from the same specimen as that shown in Fig. 1 at two levels of focus. The arrows point to the two rows of 'cilia' at the apex of lamella 1.

Fig. 4 (above): Post-antennal organ (PAO) and eight ocelli (A to H) of Hypogastrura manubrialis collected from East Prawle in January 1935 by W.M. Davies.

Figs. 5 (left): Post-antennal organ of Hypogastrura manubrialis from the same specimen as that shown in Fig. 1.

Figs. 6 (above): Posterior abdomen of Hypogastrura manubrialis from the same specimen as that shown in Fig. 1. as, anal spines.

Fig. 7 (above): Furca of Hypogastrura manubrialis collected from Sunderland in 1910 by R.S. Bagnall.