Schoettella ununguiculata is a rare bluish-black species which reaches 1.2 mm in length. The only specimen I have seen was collected by Peter Lawrence from moss at Woodwalton Fen in 1963. The species has a small four-lobed PAO (Fig. 1), 8+8 ocelli, a small pair of anal spines (Fig. 2), a furca with a long mucro (Fig. 3), and lacks an empodial appendage on the foot (Fig. 4).

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Fig. 1 (above): Four-lobed (*) Post-antennal 0rgan of Schoettella ununguiculata collected from Woodwalton Fen in June 1963 by Peter Lawrence.

Fig. 2 (above): Tiny anal spines of the same specimen of Schoettella ununguiculata shown in Fig. 1. The magnification is the same as in Fig. 4 below.

Fig. 3 (above): Furca of the same specimen of Schoettella ununguiculata shown in Fig. 1. man, manubrium. This part of the specimen is in rather poor condition.

Fig. 4 (above): Foot of the third leg of the same specimen of Schoettella ununguiculata shown in Fig. 1. The magnification is the same as in Fig. 2 above. There is no empodium (emp).