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Species Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

Globular Springtail - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

springtail - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

Globular Springtail, dorsal - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

globular springtail – Sminthurinus trinotatus? - Sminthurinus quadrimaculatus

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.

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 2 August, 2006 - 5:29pm
Additional contributions by ceiseman, v belov
Last updated 26 December, 2023 - 4:07pm

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