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 Ptenothrix italica Dallai, 1973 ( Fig. 22 ) Ptenothrix italica Dallai, 1973: 570 . NEW DATA. — First record of the species for Algeria . DISTRIBUTION. — Mediterranean region ( Bretfeld 2001 ). REMARK Very rare in our samples. This colorful large size species is reported here to P. italica rather than the Algerian species P. blidana Bretfeld, 2001 for its second antennal segment with two white band on a violet background, considered as a diagnostic character by Bretfeld (2001) . Family KATIANNIDAE Börner, 1913 Genus Sminthurinus Börner, 1901