Annotated checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Collo massif, northeastern Algeria Author Bendjaballah, Mohamed Author Zoughailech, Abdelmalek Author Brahim-Bounab, Hayette Author Hamra-Kroua, Salah Laboratoire de Biosystématique et Écologie des Arthropodes, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université des Frères Mentouri Constantine 1, Route de Ain El-Bey, 25000 Constantine (Algeria) Author Bedos, Anne Author Deharveng, Louis Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) dehar. louis @ wanadoo. fr louis@wanadoo.fr text Zoosystema 2018 2018-08-21 40 16 389 414 journal article 9262 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a16 8be054d5-36e9-4fd4-a655-ae67d67fac0c 1638-9387 4335964 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:698D3C19-FDF6-4557-8E71-BE10006E9612 Protaphorura armata (Tullberg, 1869) Lipura armata Tullberg, 1869: 18 . Protaphorura armata – Börner 1909: 102. CITATIONS FROM ALGERIA OUTSIDE COLLO. — Denis (1937: 87) as Onychiurus armatus or O. armatus species group); Cassagnau (1963: 198 , as O. armatus sensu stricto ); Stomp (1974: 112 , as O. armatus ); Stomp (1983: 192 , as O. armatus ); Thibaud & Massoud (1980: 516) ; Ait-Mouloud et al. (2007: 151, as Protaphorura gr. armata ); Hamra-Kroua & Cancela da Fonseca (2009: 36); Baquero et al. (2009: 68) ; Arbea et al. (2013: 178) . DISTRIBUTION. — Cosmopolitan ( Fjellberg 1998 ). REMARK Frequent in our samples. Some variability was observed in pseudocelli number of thoracic tergites (formulae 023 or 022 in a same population, including frequent asymmetries).