Ceratophysella denticulata, (Bagnall, 1941)

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 16

C. denticulata ( Bagnall, 1941)

– Achorutes denticulata Bagnall, 1941: 218

AK Yosii 1962, cf.; Fjellberg 1985; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

NT Rusek 1994; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

NU Fjellberg 1986, 1994; Babenko 1993, cf.; Niwranski et al. 2002; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

BC Skidmore 1995; Cannings & Scudder 2005; Cannings 2010

AB Parsons & Parkinson 1986, 1986a; Skidmore 1995

MB Aitchison 1983, 1984, 1984c, cf.; Skidmore 1995; Porco et al. 2014

ON Bird & Chatarpaul 1986, cf.; Skidmore 1995

QC Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a, cf.; Chagnon et al. 2001, cf.

NS Babenko, unpubl.

Remarks: The high polymorphism of this widespread “species” is well known, and the existence of a number of cryptic forms is highly probable. Two cryptic genetic lines named as L3 and L4 were detected within this morphological unit in MB by Porco et al. (2014). The former (L3) is likely introduced, as it has also been detected in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand ( Porco et al. 2012), and France ( Porco et al. 2014).

General distribution: cosmopolitan.