Protaphorura armata ( Tullberg, 1869 )

Brahim-Bounab, Hayette, Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Lachi, Noureddine, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2020, Checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Edough massif northeastern Algeria, Zootaxa 4853 (1), pp. 51-78 : 65-66

37. Protaphorura armata ( Tullberg, 1869) , Protaphorura gr. armata

Citation from Edough: Hamra-Kroua (2016: 86 as P. gr. armata ); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 83); Zoughailech (2017; 136).

Citations from Algeria outside Edough: 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 as P. armata ); Ait-Mouloud et al. (2007: 151 as P. gr. armata ); Hamra-Kroua & Cancela da Fonseca (2009: 36 as P. armata ); Baquero et al. (2009: 68 as P. armata ); Arbea et al. (2013: 178 as P. armata ); Hamra-Kroua (2016: 86 as P. gr. armata ); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 83); Zoughailech (2017; 136); Bendjaballah et al. (2018: 402); Bendjaballah (2020: 82).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan ( Fjellberg 1998).

Remark. Assignation to Protaphorura armata of all specimens cited in the literature needs confirmation.