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Allacma purpurescens

(MacGillivray, 1894)

Dark Globular Springtail

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Identity

Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1044837

Element CodeIICLL0B010

Record TypeSPECIES

ClassificationSpecies

Classification StatusStandard

Name CategoryInvertebrate Animal

KingdomAnimalia

PhylumArthropoda

ClassCollembola

OrderSymphypleona

FamilySminthuridae

GenusAllacma

Synonyms

Allacma (Trochopilosa) purpurescens(MacGillivray, 1894)Sminthurus purpurescens(MacGillivray, 1894)

Concept Reference

Babenko, A. , S. Stebaeva, and M. S. Turnbull. 2019. An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola. Zootaxa 4592(1):1-125.

Taxonomic Comments

Subgenus: Trochopilosa

Ecology & Habitat

Other Nations (1)

CanadaNNR

Roadless Areas (2)

Georgia (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Sarah's Creek	Chattahoochee National Forest	6,888

North Carolina (1)

Area	Forest	Acres
Overflow Creek	Nantahala National Forest	3,379

References (3)

Babenko, A. , S. Stebaeva, and M. S. Turnbull. 2019. An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan <i>Collembola</i>. Zootaxa 4592(1):1-125.
Bellinger, P.F., K.A. Christiansen, and F. Janssens. 1996-2018. Checklist of the Collembola of the World. Online. Available: http://www.collembola.org (accessed 2018).
Poole, R.W. and P. Gentili (eds.). 1997. Nomina Insecta Nearctica: a checklist of the insects of North America. Volume 4 (non-holometabolous orders). Entomological Information Services, Rockville, MD.