Species Desoria tigrina Nicolet, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Desoria tigrina Nicolet, H. 1842. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des Podurelles. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 6: 1-88 [59].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (probably lost; Bellinger, P. in litt., 1984), Switzerland.

  Type locality references:

  Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
• Spinisotoma dimorpha Womersley, H. 1934. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 86-138 [106].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I22299 ♂, Urrbrae, Adelaide, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA ♀ (on slide with holotype).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Najt, J. 1982. Contribution à l'étude du phénomène d'ecomorphose chez les Collemboles Isotomidae. These d'État [Sciences]. Toulouse : Université Paul Sabatier 271 pp. [page unknown]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871 [misidentification, see Fjellberg (1979)]. —
  Fjellberg, A. 1979. Revision of the European species in the Isotoma olivacea-group (Collembola: Isotomidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 10: 91-108
• Isotoma (Desoria) klovstadi Carpenter, 1902 [misidentification, see Greenslade (2006)]. —
  Womersley, H. 1937. Collembola. British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Reports, Series B (Zoology and Botany) 4(1): 1-7 (misidentification)

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Pastures of exotic grasses.

General References

Greenslade, P. 1990. Notes on the biogeography of the free-living terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Macquarie Island with an annotated checklist. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 124: 35-50 (Macquarie Is.)

Greenslade, P. 1990. Terrestrial invertebrates (excluding parasites and mites) of Macquarie Island. pp. 264-266 in Selkirk, P.M., Seppelt, R.D. & Selkirk, D.R. (eds). Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division. [96] (biology)

Ireson, J.E. 1993. Activity and pest status of surface-active Collembola in Tasmanian field crops and pastures. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 32: 155-167

Wolters, V. 1991. Biological processes in two beech forest sols treated with simulated acid rain. A laboratory experiment with Isotoma tigrina (Insecta, Collembola). Soil Biochemistry 23: 381-390

Womersley, H. 1934. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 86-138 (as Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871)

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. (as Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871)

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