Tree Springtail

Vertagopus arboreus

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Tree Springtail
Scientific Name: 
Vertagopus arboreus
Synonyms: 
Podura arborea
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Springtail
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Collembola
Order: 
Entomobryomorpha
Family: 
Isotomidae
Distribution

Distribution

General distribution possible Holarctic, but several species may be involved. In Canada, the species has been recorded from the NWT, British Columbia, and Ontario. Christiansen & Bellinger (1980) questioned the identity of Nearctic and European specimens treated as V. arboreus (in Babenko et al. 2019). Reference: Babenko, A., Stebaeva, S., & Turnbull, M.S. 2019. An updated checklist of Canadian and Alaskan Collembola. Zootaxa 4592(1): 001-125.
General Status Rank
Rank: 
Undetermined
Status Rank Description: 
Identification suspect.
S Rank: 
SU
Decision Process Description: 
Draft rank by J. Battigelli (2018), reviewed by S. Carriere (2019). Reviewed by J. Battigelli in 2022; no change.
Last Updated: 
July 11, 2024
Status Designations

Canada – Assessment by Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada

COSEWIC Status: 
-

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