Desoria

Desoria
	A group of glacier fleas (Desoria saltans) as assembled on the Tiefenbachferner, Tyrol, Austria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Entognatha
Order:	Collembola
Suborder:	Arthropleona
Superfamily:	Entomobryomorpha
Family:	Isotomidae
Genus:	Desoria; Agassiz & Nicolet (in Desor, 1841)
Species
	Several, including: D. elegans (Carl, J, 1899); D. saltans Nicolet, 1841;

Desoria is a genus of springtails.

Desoria Gray, 1851 † is also an unaccepted name for an echinoderm genus, synonym of Desorella Cotteau, 1855 †.

References

^ L'ascension de la Jungfrau, effectuée le 28 Août 1841, par Agassiz, Forbes, du Chatelier et Desor, précédée du récit de leur traversée de la mer de glace, du Grimsel … E Desor, 1841

Fjellberg, A. 2010: Cryophilic Isotomidae (Collembola) of the Northwestern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A. Zootaxa, 2513, pages 27–49
Lim, M.-H. & K.-H. Park, 2011: New species of Desoria (Collembola: Isotomidae) from Korea. Entomological Research 41 (3), pages 95–97, doi:10.1111/j.1748-5967.2011.00325.x

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