Folsomia sensibilis, Kseneman, 1934

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 57

F. sensibilis Kseneman, 1934

– Folsomia sensibilis Kseneman, 1934: 3

AK MacLean et al. 1978, cf.; Skidmore 1995

QC Marshall 1964, 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999, 1999a; Chagnon et al.

2000, 2000a, 2001, 2001a

NS Babenko, unpubl.

Remarks: The majority of the above records are based on that of Marshall (1964, 1967). But there is a remark by Christiansen & Bellinger (1980, p. 660) that “specimens from Quebec recorded by Marshall (1967) as sensibilis are all immature, with 1+1 or 2+2 manubrial setae. They may actually belong to F. alpha ” (now coeruleogrisea ). The same is probably true for Alaskan records. The existence of this “European boreomountainous species” ( Potapov 2001, p. 226) in the Nearctic needs further confirmation, although its presence in the Atlantic provinces of Canada is plausible.

General distribution: Eastern Nearctic and Western Palaearctic.