S. viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)

– Podura viridis Linnaeus, 1758: 608

AK Weber 1950; Bohnsack 1968; Challet & Bohnsack 1968; Edwards 1972; Danks 1981; Ryan 1981; Skidmore 1995

NT Hammer 1953; Skidmore 1995

NU Hammer 1953

Remarks: This species is absent from Christiansen & Bellinger’s keys (1981, 1998) to North American

Collembola because all of the above records are considered dubious and most probably belong to S. incisus . General distribution: probably cosmopolitan due to introduction.

Unplaceable records of Sminthurus sp.:

AK Kevan 1978

BC Beirne 1972; Rusek & Marshall 1995; Cannings 2010

QC Huebner et al. 2012

NF Arulnayagam 1995 (two species); Puvanendran et al. 1997 (two species)