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Species Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Collembola (Springtails and allies)
Order Symphypleona (Globular Springtails)
Superfamily Katiannoidea
Family Katiannidae
Genus Sminthurinus
Species quadrimaculatus (Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus)
Explanation of Names
Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus (Ryder 1878)
Identification
two separate white 'eyebrows' are distinctly visible ... f. bimaculatus
white eyebrows connected ... f. bipunctatus
―Frans Janssens
Range
holarctic: Nearctic (transcontinental) and Eastern Palaearctic(1)
Works Cited
1.An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola
Babenko A., Stebaeva S., Turnbull M.S. 2019. Zootaxa 4592: 1‒125.