Small Globular Springtail

Sphaeridia pumilis

General Status Rank: 
Undetermined
Common Name: 
Small Globular Springtail
Scientific Name: 
Sphaeridia pumilis
Synonyms: 
Sminthurus pumilis
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Taxonomy
Group: 
Springtail
Kingdom: 
Animalia
Phylum: 
Arthropoda
Class: 
Collembola
Order: 
Symphypleona
Family: 
Sminthurididae
Distribution

Distribution

General distribution Holarctic. In Canada, this species has been recorded from the Yukon, NWT, British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, and Quebec. The record of this species in Alberta is an assumption based on species occurrence in analogous communities of the United States noted by Brand & Dunn (1998) (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: 
Limited sampling effort.
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 12, 2024
Status Designations

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

COSEWIC Status: 
-

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