Tetrodontophorinae, Stach, 1954

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 : 334

Subfamily Tetrodontophorinae

Tetrodontophora bielanensis (Waga, 1842) . The species was referred to as “ a common inhabitant of the subalpine meadows with a thick soil layer in the Tsey Gorge ” [ Kuchiev, 2006]. In our opinion, the occurrence of this species endemic to Central Europe and clearly preferring moist broad-leaved forests in the main part of its distribution area [see, e.g., Kaprus’ et al., 2006], in the highlands of the Caucasus is doubtful.