Bilobella aurantiaca ( Caroli, 1912 )

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 : 60

20. Bilobella aurantiaca ( Caroli, 1912)

Citations from Edough: Deharveng et al. (2007: 57); Hamra-Kroua & Deharveng (2010: 62); Hamra-Kroua (2016: 85); Brahim-Bounab et al. (2017: 967); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 84); Zoughailech (2017: 135).

Citations from Algeria outside Edough: Handschin (1926: 119 as Achorutes aurantiacus ); Cassagnau (1963: 198 as Neanura aurantiaca ); Thibaud & Massoud (1980: 516); Hamra-Kroua & Allatou (2003: 22); Ait-Mouloud et al. (2007: 151); Deharveng et al. (2007: 57); Baquero et al. (2009: 68); Arbea et al. (2013: 178); Hamra-Kroua (2016: 85); Brahim-Bounab et al. (2017: 967); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 84); Zoughailech (2017: 135); Bendjaballah et al. (2018: 397, Fig. 5 ); Bendjaballah (2020: 82). Hamra-Kroua (2016: 86 as Bilobella braunerae Deharveng, 1981 , a single dubious record, which concerns an aberrant specimen of B. aurantiaca . Not cited from Algeria outside Edough.

Distribution: Mediterranean ( Arbea & Jordana 1997).

Remark. A very common species in Edough.

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FIGURE 5. Protanura monticellii (Photo L. Deharveng & A. Bedos)