Vertagopus cinereus, Folsom, 1924

Babenko, Anatoly, Stebaeva, Sophya & Turnbull, Matthew S., 2019, An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola, Zootaxa 4592 (1), pp. 1-125 : 83

L. cinereus Folsom, 1924

– Lepidocyrtus cyaneus var. cinereus Folsom, 1924: 9

– Lepidocyrtus pallidus Reuter, 1890: 24

AB Berg & Pawluk 1984; Skidmore 1995; Lindo 2014 as cinereus and pallidus

ON James 1933; Maynard 1951

Remarks: According to Christiansen & Bellinger (1980, p. 939), old “published records [of L. cinereus ] are suspect because of confusion with other species”. On the other hand, those of L. pallidus in the Nearctic “are [also] unreliable because of possible confusion with other species, especially L. cinereus ” ( Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, p. 952) . It should be noted that the occurrence of true L. pallidus , said to be “the commonest species of the genus in Nearctic collections” by Christiansen & Bellinger (1980, p. 952), later became doubtful because “none of the specimens we had identified as pallidus are in fact that species” ( Christiansen & Bellinger 1998, p. 1058).

General distribution: Nearctic.