Katiannidae, Borner, 1913

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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scientific name	Katiannidae
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Family Katiannidae View in CoL

Sminthurinus elegans (Fitch, 1863) View in CoL . The only species of the genus occurring both in the Palaearctic and the Nearctic [ Bretfeld, 1999], mainly preferring meadow communities. It was recorded earlier in the western Caucasus [ Kuznetsova et al., 2019]. In North Ossetia, the species was found only on pastures east of Alagir [ Kremenitsa, 2002].

** S. gisini Gama, 1965 View in CoL . The species occurs in Southern and Central Europe ( Portugal, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Austria). In the nature reserve, it has been encountered only in a mixed forest (moss on stones). This is the first record from the Republic of North Ossetia.

References

Bretfeld G. 1999. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola (W. Dunger, Ed.), Vol. II, Symphypleona // Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Gorlitz. Bd. 71. Hf. 1. 318 S.

Kremenitsa A. M. 2002. [Microarthropods of a pasture in the plainland of North Ossetia - Alania] // B. R. Striganova (ed.). Problemy Pochvennoy Zoologii. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd. P. 215 - 216 [in Russian].

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