Tomocerus vulgaris (Tullberg, 1871)

Özata, Muhammet Ali, Sevgili, Hasan & Kaprus, Igor J., 2017, New records of springtail fauna (Hexapoda: Collembola: Entomobryomorpha) from Ordu Province in Turkey, Turkish Journal of Zoology 41 (1), pp. 24-32 : 31-32

Tomocerus vulgaris (Tullberg, 1871)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan distribution (Fjellberg, 2007). It was also recorded in Alanya (Antalya) in Turkey ( Skayrzynski and Pomorski, 1999).

Remarks: This species is widespread in Ordu Province and was sampled from the various debris of mixed forest.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Mikhail Potapov, Rafael Jordana, and Eduardo Mateos for their help in collection methods and providing some papers. Special thanks to Rahşen Kaya and Rana Akyazı for their valuable advice, which improved this study significantly. Many thanks to Hüseyin Sevgili and Onur Sevgili for their suggestions and for improving the English. We also thank the anonymous referees for their comments on the earlier version of this manuscript. Funding was provided by Ordu University, Turkey (Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit, TF-1308).

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