Friesea espunaensis Arbea & Jordana, 1993

Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Zoughailech, Abdelmalek, Brahim-Bounab, Hayette, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2018, Annotated checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Collo massif, northeastern Algeria, Zoosystema 40 (16), pp. 389-414 : 396

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a16
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4330956
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scientific name	Friesea espunaensis Arbea & Jordana, 1993
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Friesea espunaensis Arbea & Jordana, 1993: 9 .

CITATIONS FROM ALGERIA OUTSIDE COLLO. — Brahim-Bounab et al. (2014: 42; 2017: 967).

DISTRIBUTION. — Spain ( Arbea & Jordana 1997) and Algeria.

DISTRIBUTION. — Europe ( Deharveng 2013).

REMARK

Rare in our samples, only recorded in rotten wood from Oued Z’hor. The Collo specimens, and those cited in the literature from Algeria, correspond to F. afurcata rather than F. ladeiroi . The two species are very similar, but can be distinguished by their posterior chaetae (serrated versus smooth) and the presence vs absence of chaeta a2 on the fifth abdominal tergite.