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Megalothorax incertus Borner 1903
Description
M. incertus Börner, 1903
– Megalothorax incertus Börner, 1903: 160
QC Marshall 1964, 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Skidmore 1995
NF Arulnayagam 1995; Puvanendran et al. 1997
Remarks: Due to the recent revision of the genus (Schneider & D’Haese 2013) and several subsequent descriptions of new congeners, the above records should be considered questionable.
General distribution: uncertain; described from Sicily, Italy.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Neelidae
- Genus
- Megalothorax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Collembola
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Borner
- Species
- incertus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megalothorax incertus Borner, 1903 sec. Babenko, Stebaeva & Turnbull, 2019
References
- Borner, C. (1903) Neue altweltliche Collembolen, nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Isotominen und Entomobryinen. Sitzungsberichten der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 129 - 182. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29866
- Marshall, V. G. (1964) Studies on the Micro-Arthropod fauna of two Quebec woodland humus forms. Ph. D. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 354 pp.
- Marshall, V. G. (1967) Microarthropods from two Quebec woodland humus forms. II. The Collembola. Annals of the Entomological Society of Quebec, 12, 166 - 181.
- Christiansen, K. & Bellinger, P. (1981) The Collembola of North America, North of the Rio Grande, 1 st edition. Part 4. Families Neelidae and Sminthuridae. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1043 - 1322.
- Christiansen, K. A. & Bellinger, P. (1998) The Collembola of North America, North of the Rio Grande, 2 nd edition. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1518 pp.
- Skidmore, R. E. (1995) Checklist of Collembola (Insecta: Apterygota) of Canada and Alaska. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 126, 45 - 76.
- Arulnayagam, D. C. (1995) Effect of clear-cutting on the diversity and distribution of Collembola in Western Newfoundland Balsam fir-Dryopteris and Equisetum-Rubus forests. M. Sc. Thesis, Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 169 pp.
- Puvanendran, D. C., Larson, D. J. & Thompson, I. D. (1997) Collembola (Arthropoda) of Balsam fir [Abies balsamea (L.)] forests of western Newfoundland. The Canadian Entomologist, 129, 505 - 517. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 129505 - 3
- Schneider, C. & D'Haese, C. A. (2013) Morphological and molecular insights on Megalothorax: the largest Neelipleona genus revisited. Invertebrate Systematics, 27, 317 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IS 13002