Friesea mirabilis ( Tullberg, 1871 )

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

19. Friesea mirabilis ( Tullberg, 1871) , Friesea cf. mirabilis

Citations from Edough: Hamra-Kroua & Deharveng (2010: 62 as F. sp4 cf. mirabilis ); Brahim-Bounab et al. (2014: 42; 2017: 967); Hamra-Kroua (2016: several citations as F. mirabilis or F. cf. mirabilis ); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 84); Zoughailech (2017: 135 as F. cf. mirabilis ).

Citations from Algeria outside Edough: Brahim-Bounab et al. (2014: 42; 2017: 967); Brahim-Bounab (2017: 84).

Distribution: subcosmopolitan ( Deharveng 2013; not cited from the Afro-tropical region after Thibaud 2013).

Remark. Species collected only once, identification to confirm. F. mirabilis belongs to a group of very closely related species. In Hamra-Kroua (2016), the tibiotarsal chaetotaxy of the Algerian specimens is given as 17, 17, 16.