Protaphorura armata (Tullberg, 1869)

Lipura armata Tullberg, 1869: 18 .

Protaphorura armata – Börner 1909: 102.

CITATIONS FROM ALGERIA OUTSIDE COLLO. — Denis (1937: 87) as Onychiurus armatus or O. armatus species group); Cassagnau (1963: 198, as O. armatus sensu stricto); Stomp (1974: 112, as O. armatus); Stomp (1983: 192, as O. armatus); Thibaud & Massoud (1980: 516); Ait-Mouloud et al. (2007: 151, as Protaphorura gr. armata); Hamra-Kroua & Cancela da Fonseca (2009: 36); Baquero et al. (2009: 68); Arbea et al. (2013: 178).

DISTRIBUTION. — Cosmopolitan (Fjellberg 1998).

REMARK

Frequent in our samples. Some variability was observed in pseudocelli number of thoracic tergites (formulae 023 or 022 in a same population, including frequent asymmetries).