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Species Sminthurinus elegans

Globular springtail sp - Sminthurinus elegans

Does its fused abdomen spots rule out quadrimaculatus? - Sminthurinus elegans

Globular Springtail - Sminthurinus elegans

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 elegans (Sminthurinus elegans)

Explanation of Names

Sminthurinus elegans (Fitch 1862)

Range

Holarctic (transcontinental in NA) + some records from the southern hemisphere(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 31 October, 2006 - 6:45pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 26 December, 2023 - 4:21pm

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