An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola
Author
Babenko, Anatoly
Author
Stebaeva, Sophya
Author
Turnbull, Matthew S.
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-02
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C. gibbomucronata
Hammer, 1953
–
Ceratophysella gibbomucronata
Hammer, 1953: 17
NT
Hammer 1953
;
Christiansen & Bellinger 1980
,
1998
;
Skidmore 1993
,
1995
;
Babenko & Fjellberg 2006
;
Stebaeva
et al.
2016
Remarks: This and a number of other species with Nearctic and Eastern Palaearctic distributional ranges and peculiar chaetotaxy and postantennal organ (
C. horrida
,
C. loricata
,
C. krafti
,
C.
virga
,
C. vulgaris
,
C. wallmoi
, etc.) were previously combined in the genus
Mitchellania
Wray, 1953
(also known as
Cyclograna
Yosii, 1961
) related to
Ceratophysella
.
Skarżyński & Christiansen (2008)
sunk
Mitchellania
into
Ceratophysella
because some species with intermediate characteristics do exist. Nevertheless, we are not sure that this decision is fully reasonable. The whole group appears to be rather natural, with common ranges and a number of unique characters not typical of other species of
Ceratophysella
.
General distribution: Nearctic.