History of changes

• Acrotelsa Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 43: 1-164 [105].

  Type species:

   Lepisma collaris Fabricius, 1793 by subsequent designation, see Silvestri, F. 1935. Marquesan Thysanura. Marquesan Insects II. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 114: 305-312 [307].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Distribution References

History of changes

• Lepisma collaris Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp. [64].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, West Indies, Caribbean (as Americae meridionalis Insulis).
• Lepisma niveofasciata Templeton, R. 1843. Memoir on the genus Cermatia, and some other exotic Annulosa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 302-309 [304].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Lepisma mucronata Packard, A.S. 1873. Synopsis of the Thysanura of Essex County, Mass., with descriptions of a few extralimital forms. Annual Report of the Peabody Academy of Sciences 5: 23-51 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ, Pulvon, W coast of Nicaragua.
• Lepisma cincta Oudemans, J.T. 1890. Apterygota des Indischen Archipels. pp. 73–92 in Weber, M. (ed.) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch-Ostindien. Leiden. [80].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Buitenzorg, Java.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 43: 1-164 [107] (L. niveofasciata, L. cincta)
• Wygodzinsky, P. 1972. A review of the silverfish (Lepismatidae, Thysanura) of the United States and the Caribbean area. American Museum Novitates 2481: 1-26 [10] (L. mucronata)

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical.

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: N coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Omnivore, peridomestic.

Extra Ecological Information

Peridomestic in Australia, free-living under stones in semi-desert in the Middle East.

History of changes

• Acrotelsella Silvestri, F. 1935. Marquesan Thysanura. Marquesan Insects II. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 114: 305-312 [307].

  Type species:

   Acrotelsa producta Escherich, 1905 by original designation.
• Stylifera Stach, J. 1932. III. Die Apterygoten aus den Galapagos-Inseln. Meddelelser fra det Zoologiske Museum, Oslo 29: 331–346, tabs II–IV [333, 345] [pro parte].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Oceania.

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD) ; NT, SA: Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Sturt Plateau (STU) ; NT, SA, WA: Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Tanami (TAN) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Tas: Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM)

Distribution References

General References

Smith, G.B. 2016. On some Silverfish Taxa from Tasmania (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae and Nicoletiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(2): 45–80 [66]

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Silvestri, F. 1908. Thysanura. pp. 47-68, figs 128-141 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [54]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

History of changes

• Acrotelsa devriesiana devriesiana Silvestri, F. 1908. Thysanura. pp. 47-68, figs 128-141 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [53].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) IEA several specimens (in alcohol and as slide preparation), Brown Station Dirk Hartog Island, Geraldton, Yalgoo, Moonyoonooka, Dongarra, Kalgoorlie, East Fremantle, Fremantle, Yarloop, York, WA; ZMH several specimens (in alcohol), Brown Station Dirk Hartog Island, Geraldton, Yalgoo, Moonyoonooka, Dongarra, Kalgoorlie, East Fremantle, Fremantle, Yarloop, York, WA; ZMB several specimens (in alcohol), Brown Station Dirk Hartog Island, Geraldton, Yalgoo, Moonyoonooka, Dongarra, Kalgoorlie, East Fremantle, Fremantle, Yarloop, York, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Nullarbor (NUL), Pilbara (PIL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

History of changes

• Acrotelsa devriesiana perspinata Silvestri, F. 1908. Thysanura. pp. 47-68, figs 128-141 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [54].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) IEA (in alcohol and as slide preparation), Denham and Dongarra, WA; ZMB 2 specimens (in alcohol), Denham and Dongarra, WA; ZMH (in alcohol), Denham and Dongarra, WA.

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Gascoyne (GAS), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

History of changes

• Acrotelsa westralis Nicholls, G.E. & Richardson, K.C. 1926. A description of two species of Acrotelsa. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12: 133-140 [137].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 63/357a–g (7 slide preparations), Beaconsfield, WA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

General References

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [37] (as subspecies)

History of changes

• Acrotelsella erniei Smith, G. 2015. A new Australian species of Acrotelsella (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae); could it be an endangered short range endemic? Soil Organisms 87(3): 169-181 [170, figs 1, 4–50].

  Type data:

   Holotype NTM I009249 ♀, West MacDonnell National Park, Mount Sonder track near summit, NT [23°34.711‘S 132°34.100‘ E].
  Paratype(s) NTM I009250 ♂, West MacDonnell National Park, Mount Sonder track near summit, NT [23°34.711‘S 132°34.100‘ E]; NTM K377609 ♂, West MacDonnell National Park, Mount Sonder track near summit, NT [23°34.711‘S 132°34.100‘ E]; NTM K377610 ♀, West MacDonnell National Park, Mount Sonder track near summit, NT [23°34.711‘S 132°34.100‘ E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

IBRA

NT: MacDonnell Ranges (MAC)

History of changes

• Acrotelsella escherichi Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [37].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) SAMA (in alcohol), Inneston, SA and Sandy Chasm (? = Standley Chasm), NT.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

NT, SA: Burt Plain (BRT), Central Ranges (CR), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: W plateau
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

History of changes

• Acrotelsella parlevar Smith, G.B. 2016. On some Silverfish Taxa from Tasmania (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae and Nicoletiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(2): 45–80 [66–72, figs 122–163].

  Type data:

   Holotype AMSA K261103 K261104 ♀ (17–23 April 2015, W. and L. Clarkson), TAS: Travellers Rest, near Launceston [41.49103°S 147.07778°E].

Distribution

States

Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA

Tas: Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM)

Ecological Descriptors

Dry sclerophyll forest (associated flora: Eucalyptus amygdalina Labill. [MYRTACEAE] Black Peppermint; Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. [MYRTACEAE] Manna Gum; Exocarpos cupressiformis Labill. [SANTALACEAE] Native Cherry).

History of changes

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Silvestri, F. 1935. Marquesan Thysanura. Marquesan Insects II. Bulletin of the Bernice P. Bishop Museum 114: 305-312 [307]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, NE coastal

History of changes

• Acrotelsa producta Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 43: 1-164 [111].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) ZMH 9 specimens (in alcohol), Peak Downs, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA

NT, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

General References

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [32] (distribution)

History of changes

• Acrotelsella silvestri Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [37].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA ♀, SW River (as Sou'-West River), Flinders Chase, Kangaroo Is., SA.

Distribution

States

South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

History of changes

• Acrotelsa splendens Nicholls, G.E. & Richardson, K.C. 1926. A description of two species of Acrotelsa. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12: 133-140 [134].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) WAM 63/356a–e ♂ ♀ (5 slide preparations), Mount Nairn, Milly Milly district, WA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA

SA, WA: Carnarvon (CAR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore.

History of changes

• Lepisma Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [608].

  Type species:

   Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy (second nominate species, Lepisma terrestris, is treated as a nom. nud.).
• Forbicina Geoffroy, E.L. 1762. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Paris : Durand I. xxvii 523 pp. Vol. 2 690 pp. [611] [junior objective synonym of Lepisma Linnaeus, 1758].

  Type species:

   Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation, see Kerzhner, I.M. 1991. Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. (Geoffroy, 1762): proposed conservation of some generic names (Crustacea and Insecta). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 48: 107-133 [112].

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Worldwide.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

History of changes

• Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10 Edn., 824 pp. [608].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, America, Europe, Sweden.
• Forbicina plana Geoffrey, E.L. 1762. Forbicina. pp. 611-614 in Geoffrey, E.L. Histoire abregée des insects qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Paris : Durand Vol. 2 616 pp. [613].
• Lepisma vulgaris Scopoli, G.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica, exhibens Insecta Carniolæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [=Vienna] : Trattner xxxvi 420 pp. [378].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Carniolia.

  Type locality references:

  Irish, J. in Smith, G.B. 1998. Zygentoma. pp. 7-20, 404-406 (Index) in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Paclt, J. 1967. Thysanura, Fam. Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, Lepismatidae. Genera Insectorum 218: 1-86.
• Lepisma semicylindrica De Geer, C. 1783. Lepisma. p. 198 in Genera et species insectorum e generosissimi auctoris scriptis. Lipsiae: Apud Sigfried Lebrecht Crusium. 252pp. [198].
• Lepisma quercetorum Wygodzinsky, P. 1945. Contribuição ao conhecimento dos Entotrophi e Thysanura de Portugal. III. Familia Lepismatidae (Thysanura) 1. Conclusões. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 5: 419-433 [419].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Serra da Arrábida, Portugal.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Paclt, J. 1967. Thysanura, Fam. Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, Lepismatidae. Genera Insectorum 218: 1-86 [19] (Lepisma vulgaris)
• Mendes, L.F. 1988. Revisão do género Lepisma Lin., 1758 s. lat. (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia Suppl. 2: 1-235 [25] (Lepisma quercetorum)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin*, NSW, QLD*, SA, VIC; cosmopolitan.

Introduced from unknown country.

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Omnivore, peridomestic.

Extra Ecological Information

Free-living in W Palaearctic.

General References

Laibach, E. 1952. Lepisma saccharina L. das Silberfischen. Zeitschrift für hygeienische Zoologie und Schädlingsbekämpf 40: 321-370 (biology)

Smith, G. 2015. Australian Lepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae). General and Applied Entomology 43: 25-36 [27]

History of changes

• Lepisma umbra Smith, G. 2015. Australian Lepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae). General and Applied Entomology 43: 25-36 [27, figs 2-54].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC 5- 000012 ♀, Townsville Common, Qld [19.21°S 146.76°E].
  Paratype(s) ANIC 5-000013 ♀, Townsville Common, Qld [19.21°S 146.76°E]; ANIC 5-000014 ♂, Neerkol Creek at Capricorn Highway west of Kabra, Qld [23.486°S 150.345°E].

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN)

History of changes