Cryptopygus sphagneticola, (Linnaniemi, 1912)

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 53

* C. sphagneticola ( Linnaniemi, 1912)

– Isotoma sphagneticola Linnaniemi, 1912: 171

AK Toda & Tanno 1983; Skidmore 1995

NT Hammer 1953; Skidmore 1995

Remarks: Christiansen & Bellinger (1980, p. 611) considered this species as “unplaceable without specimens”. Fjellberg (2007) suggested that it may be a senior synonym of Parisotoma ekmani . Nevertheless, “ no material of sphagneticola can be traced in Finnish museums so the taxon remains a ‘species inquirenda’ and the synonymy cannot be asserted” ( Fjellberg, 2007, p. 110).

General distribution: uncertain.

Unplaceable record of Cryptopygus sp.:

BC Rusek & Marshall 1995; Addison et al. 2003

QC Chagnon et al. 2001