Multivesicula dolomitica, Rusek, 1982

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 34-35

M. dolomitica Rusek, 1982

– Multivesicula dolomitica Rusek, 1982: 39

NT Rusek 1982; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

Remarks: The Nearctic M. dolomitica is very similar to the Palaearctic M. giljarovi Rusek, 1982 , described from the vicinity of Lake Baikal (Siberia). According to the original descriptions, these species differ in number of lobes in the postantennal organ (~60 vs 75) and the absence of a single microseta (m 4) on the first abdominal segment (which is present in giljarovi ). The number of lobes appears to be variable: specimens from Banks Island and Prince Patrick Island in NT have a postantennal organ with 65–87 lobes (our data).

General distribution: Nearctic and Eastern Palaearctic.