Folsomia penicula Bagnall, 1939

Mayvan, Mahmood Mehrafrooz, Greenslade, Penelope & Sadeghi-Namaghi, Hussein, 2023, An annotated checklist of the Collembola (Hexapoda) from Iran, Zootaxa 5275 (1), pp. 1-101 : 43

Folsomia penicula Bagnall, 1939

– Folsomia penicula Bagnall, 1939 a: 57.

CE, EA: Cox 1982; LO: Moradi et al. 2019; GO: Falahati et al. 2011; Falahati 2012; Falahati et al. 2013b; Yoosefi Lafooraki et al. 2020b; GI: Daghighi 2012; Daghighi et al. 2013a, b; Yoosefi Lafooraki et al. 2020b; TE: Qazi & Shayanmehr 2014; Yahyapour et al. 2019; MAZ: Yoosefi Lafooraki 2014; Yoosefi Lafooraki & Shayanmehr 2014a, b; Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2015a; Ghasemi Cherati 2017; Yoosefi Lafooraki et al. 2020b; Bakhshi et al. 2022; NK: Mehrafrooz Mayvan et al. 2022a; KS: Arbea & Kahrarian 2015b; Kahrarian 2015; KU: Ahmadi et al. 2023.

Ecology and habitat in Iran: soil under oak trees.

Remarks: Cox 1982, Daghighi et al. 2013 a and Falahati et al. 2013a mentioned this species as Folsomia multiseta Stach, 1947 that is considered as junior synonym of F. penicula .

General distribution: Western Palaearcic and Western Nearctic (Babenko et al. 2019) and Iran.