Morulina gigantea, (Tullberg, 1877)

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 44-45

M. gigantea ( Tullberg, 1877)

– Anura gigantea Tullberg, 1877: 41

– Morulina kotzebuensis Bödvarsson, 1960: 48

AK Folsom 1902; McAtee 1923; Essig 1926; Mills 1939; B ӧdvarsson 1960 as kotzebuensis ; Bohnsack 1968; Challet & Bohnsack 1968; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Danks 1981 as gigantea and kotzebuensis ; Fjellberg 1985; Skidmore 1995 as gigantea and kotzebuensis ; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

NT Toda & Tanno 1983; Skidmore 1995; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006

NU Wahlgren 1907; James 1938; Hammer 1955; Addison 1975; Ryan 1977; Danks 1981; Babenko & Fjellberg 2006 Remarks: There is no modern evidence that M. gigantea exists in Canada, and older records from both NT and

NU may belong to a number of species. As was noted by Hammer (1953, p. 6), “ Morulina gigantea …, determined

by Wahlgren and James, hardly belongs to the said species, but may be one of the two Morulina species found by myself”. General distribution: Nearctic and Eastern Palaearctic.