Sminthurididae, Borner, 1906

Antipova, M. D. & Babenko, A. B., 2022, An annotated checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) recorded from the foothill and mountain parts of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, North Caucasus, Russia, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (4), pp. 331-345 : 341

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https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.31.4.01

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scientific name

Sminthurididae
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Family Sminthurididae View in CoL

Sphaeridia pumilis (Krausbauer, 1898) . The species is considered cosmopolitan. In the nature reserve, it prefers forests, e.g. pine [ Kuznetsova et al., 2019] and maple forests of the Tsey Gorge (our data).

Kuznetsova N. A., Bokova A. I., Saraeva A. K., Shveenkova Yu. B. 2019. Structure of the species diversity of soil Springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) in pine forests of the Caucasus and the Russian Plain: a multi-scale approach // Entomological Review. Vol. 99. No. 2. P. 149 - 162. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / S 001387381902001 X