The order Poduromorpha is one of the three main groups of springtails (Collembola), tiny hexapods related to insects.

[1] The Poduromorpha also tend to have short legs and a plump body, but more oval in shape than the Symphypleona.

Their name means ‘foot tail formed’, deriving from their short, flat, furcula.

Actually the Entomobryomorpha, the Poduromorpha, and the third springtail lineage – the Symphypleona – are equally distinct from each other.

When the springtails were still believed to be an order of insects, the "Arthropleona" and the Symphypleona were treated as suborders.