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Topic: Katiannidae springtails

I would like to request a species to be added, but it has minimal (to say the least) information:

Genus: Genus nov. 1 Greenslade P in Ardron, PA, 2009:16
Species: Sp. nov.2 Janssens,F. & Phillips, E. 2017
Family: Katiannidae (Collembola)

I now have two sites for this "species" in Staffordshire and would like to be able to add them to Recorder

Craig Slawson
Staffordshire Ecological Record

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Re: Katiannidae springtails

I would like to be able to add records for this species too Craig - I currently have records from 2 sites for Merseyside and have recently passed a specimen to Peter Shaw which I believe he was putting forward for DNA analysis.  Perhaps we may get a 'proper' name this year.

Steve

Steve J. McWilliam
www.rECOrd-LRC.co.uk
www.stevemcwilliam.co.uk/guitar/

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Re: Katiannidae springtails

That's going to be a fun one ... a taxon called "Genus nov. 1 species nov. 2 Janssens & Phillips, 2017"? Is there a vernacular name in current usage for it?

Chris Raper, Manager of the UK Species Inventory, Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity,
Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.  (tel: 020 7942 5894)
also Tachinid Recording Scheme (http://tachinidae.org.uk/)