Friesea major Hamra-Kroua, Jordana & Deharveng, 2009

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 : 396-397

Friesea major Hamra-Kroua, Jordana & Deharveng, 2009

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Friesea major Hamra-Kroua, Jordana & Deharveng, 2009: 65 .

TYPE LOCALITY. — Algeria, Edough massif .

CITATIONS FROM ALGERIA OUTSIDE COLLO. — Hamra-Kroua et al. (2009: 65); Arbea et al. (2013: 78); Thibaud (2013: 234); BrahimBounab et al. (2014: 42; 2017: 967).

DISTRIBUTION. — Endemic of Algeria (Hamra-Kroua et al. 2009).

REMARK

Rare in our samples, only recorded in leaf litter and moss from Oued Z’hor.

Subfamily NEANURINAE Börner, 1901

REMARK

With five species in five genera, the Neanurinae of Collo are diversified at a level comparable to other Mediterranean regions of similar size (for example different massifs of the Italian Peninsula: Dallai 1967, 1970, 1971; Dallai & Martinozzi 1980). However, the Neanurinae fauna of Collo is unique by the absence of Neanura muscorum (Templeton, 1835) , the presence of the morphologically unusual genus Edoughnura Deharveng, Hamra-Kroua & Bedos, 2007 , and the unexpected discovery of Sensillanura austriaca Gama, 1963 .

Figures

FIG. 4. — Friesea major Hamra-Kroua, Jordana & Deharveng, 2009. Body size: 1.2 mm.