Hypogastrura rangkuli, Martynova, 1975

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 13

H. rangkuli Martynova, 1975

– Hypogastrura rangkuli Martynova in Martynova & Chelnokov, 1975: 468

– Hypogastrura devia Christiansen & Bellinger sensu Fjellberg 1985: 28

AK Fjellberg 1985 as devia ; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

Remarks: This single Alaskan record of the species is uncertain. H. rangkuli was originally described from high mountain regions of Central Asia; it was later found on the Siberian Arctic coast ( Babenko et al. 1994) and in Indian Himalaya ( Mandal & Arbea 2014). The species shares an unmodified maxillary head with only one other species of the manubrialis group, H. serrata . The latter was also recorded in the High Arctic recently ( Babenko 2018). As these species are not well differentiated (although H. rangkuli is usually darker and has a finer granulation), further study is needed to determine the status of these forms. True H. devia appears to be a junior synonym of H. assimilis (see remarks on those species).

General distribution: uncertain.