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Pygmarrhopalites pygmaeus

Description

P. pygmaeus (Wankel, 1860)

Dicyrtoma pygmaea Wankel, 1860: 203

Sminthurinus binoculatus Börner, 1901a: 343

AK Weber 1950 as binnoculatus; Christiansen & Bellinger 1981, 1998; Danks 1981 as binoculatus; Skidmore 1995

NT Hammer 1953 as binoculatus

AB Skidmore 1995; Lindo 2014

ON Skidmore 1995

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

Remarks: Babenko & Fjellberg (2006) considered all Alaskan records of this species as well as that of Hammer for Yellow Knife as belonging to P. principalis.

General distribution: Holarctic.

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 98, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4592.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/2656929

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References

  • Wankel, H. (1860) Beitrage zur Fauna der mahrischen Hohlen. Lotos, 10, 201 - 206.
  • Borner, C. (1901 a) Uber einige theilweise neue Collembolen aus den Hohlen der Gegend von Letmathe in Westfalen. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 24 (645), 333 - 345.
  • Weber, N. A. (1950) A survey of the insects and related arthropods of Arctic Alaska. Part. 1. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 76, 147 - 206.
  • 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.
  • Danks, H. V. (1981) Arctic Arthropods. Tyrell Press Ltd., Ottawa, 608 pp.
  • Skidmore, R. E. (1995) Checklist of Collembola (Insecta: Apterygota) of Canada and Alaska. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 126, 45 - 76.
  • Hammer, M. (1953) Investigations on the microfauna of Northern Canada. II. Collembola. Acta Arctica, 6, 108 pp.
  • Lindo, Z. (2014) Springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Prairie Grasslands of Canada. In: Carcamo, H. & Giberson, D. J. (Eds), Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands, Volume 3. Biodiversity and Systematics, Part 1. Chapter 6. Biological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 191 - 198. https: // doi. org / 10.3752 / 9780968932162. ch 6
  • Calder, D. R. & Bleakney, J. S. (1965) Microarthropod ecology of a porcupine-inhabited cave in Nova Scotia. Ecology, 46, 895 - 899. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 1934031
  • Calder, D. R. & Bleakney, J. S. (1967) Observations on Frenchman's Cave, Nova Scotia and its fauna. Bulletin of the National Speleological Society, 29 (1), 23 - 25.
  • Babenko, A. & Fjellberg, A. (2006) Collembola septentrionale. A catalogue of springtails of the Arctic regions. KMK Scientific Press Ltd, Moscow, 190 pp.