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Megalothorax minimus Willem 1900

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M. minimus Willem, 1900

– Megalothorax minimus Willem, 1900: 7

AK Weber 1950; Bohnsack 1968; Challet & Bohnsack 1968; MacLean et al. 1978; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Danks 1981; Ryan 1981; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

NT Hammer 1953; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Danks 1981; Rusek 1994; Skidmore 1995

NU Hammer 1953, 1953a; Oliver 1963; Addison 1975, 1980; Ryan 1977; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Danks 1981; Fjellberg 1986, 1994; Babenko 1993, 1994a; Chernov 2004; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

BC Battigelli & Marshall 1993; Setälä & Marshall 1994; Setälä et al. 1995; Rusek & Marshall 1995; Skidmore 1995; Addison et al. 2003, 2003a; Cannings & Scudder 2005; Cannings 2010

AB Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Skidmore 1995

QC Marshall 1964, 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a; Chagnon et al. 2000, 2001; Huebner et al. 2012

NS Calder & Bleakney 1965, 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Skidmore 1995

NF Arulnayagam 1995; Puvanendran et al. 1997

Remarks: See remarks on M. incertus.

General distribution: considered cosmopolitan, but the majority of published records are unreliable.

Unplaceable records of Megalothorax sp.:

MB Porco et al. 2014 (two species)

QC Marshall 1964

Notes

Published as part of Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 4592 (1) on page 93, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929

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Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Neelidae
Genus
Megalothorax
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Collembola
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Willem
Species
minimus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Megalothorax minimus Willem, 1900 sec. Babenko, Stebaeva & Turnbull, 2019

References

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