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Valuable contribution to the knowledge on Collembola of Romania was made by C. N. IONESCU ( 1914, 1915, 1922), STACH ( 1947-1963), M. IONESCU (1951), MACK-FIRÄ (1961, 1963, 1965), CASSAGNAU & PEJA (1979), RUSEK (1979), MARI MUTT & STOMP (1980), DEHARVENG (1986), BULIMAR (1980, 1982,1983,1986,1987,1991,1992^, b, 1994), THIBAUD (1992), HARSIA(1997), HARSIA & GRUIA (1992) and GRUIA (1964-2003). The author of the present paper has started her carreer with investigations of Collembola communities from some Quercus forests (FIERA in SANDA et al. 2006a, 2006b) in Muntenia Region and also in some ecosystems in Insula Mare a Bräilei (FIERA 2006). Since 1990, five species new for science were described from Romania by GRUIA & HARSIA (1990), HARSIA & GRUIA (1992), GRUIA (1994), GRUIA & POPA (2005) and RADWANSKI et al. (2006). As for faunistic papers, DÁNYI et al. (2006) reported 66 species from Maramures and SKOLKA et al. (2004) found 55 species of Collembola in Dobrogea. The collembolan fauna of Transylvania was studied by VELLAY (1900), STACH (1929), SZENT-IVÁNY (1938), RADU & ROGOJANU (1972), ARDELEAN (1998) and KONTSCHÁN et al. (2003). In the Romanian Carpathians, the most investigated are the subterranean collembolans by GRUIA (1969^, b, 2003), NAE et al. (2005) and POPA & GRUIA (2006). Edaphic Collembola were studied by GRUIA & ZAMFIRESCU (1973), FIERA (in prep.) in the Bucegi Mountains, BULIMAR (1982) in "Codrul Secular Slätioara", FALCA (1984) and HARSIA (1992, 1995) in the Retezat National Park and Apuseni Mountains, respectively. The goal of this paper is to complete the first updated checklist of the Romanian springtails based on the most recent and acceptable outline of the systematics of Collembola. This checklist includes 388 species, including 8 problematic ones. The arrangement of the taxa follows The Checklist of the Collembola of the World by BELLINGER et al. (1996-2006). Some papers followed the taxonomic system of GlSIN ( 1960), while others did not. Nomenclature is given after ZlMDARS & DUNGER (1994), HOPKIN (1997), POMORSKI (1998), FJELLBERG (1998), B

RETFELD (1999), POTAPOV (2001), RUSEK (2002), THIBAUD et al. (2004) and DEHARVENG (2004). The name of each species is followed by the first and the last reference on the occurrence of the collembolan species within Romania. Hymenaphorura sibirica (TULLBERG, 1876) was deleted from this checklist. This species has been reported from the most parts of the Holarctic region, but it is now clear that "sibirica" of authors covers a number of species ( WEINER & FJELLBERG 1994). After the redescription of this species, we consider that