Genus Actaecia Dana, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Actaecia Dana, J.D. 1853. Crustacea. Part 2. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. 13(2): 686-1618 [Folio atlas of 96 plates] [735].

  Type species:

   Actaecia euchroa Dana, 1853 by monotypy.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ACTAECIIDAE: Actaecia euchroa Dana, 1853 — Thomson, G.M. 1893. Notes on Tasmanian Crustacea, with descriptions of new species. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1892: 45-76; Wahrberg, R. 1922. Terrestre Isopoden aus Australien. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910–13. No. 30. Arkiv för Zoologi 15: 1-298; Bowley, E.A. 1935. A survey of the oniscoid genus Phalloniscus Budde-Lund, with a description of new species. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 21: 45-73; Green, A.J.A. 1961. A study of Tasmanian Oniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 258-365

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

New Zealand.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Carnarvon (CAR), 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), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Pilbara (PIL), 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) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Finke (FIN), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Lord Howe Island
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Norfolk Island
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal

Distribution References

General References

Schmidt, C. 2002. Contribution to the phylogenetic system of the Crinochaeta (Crustacea, Isopoda), Part 1. (Olibrinidae to Scyphacidae s. str.). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 78: 275-352 (assigned genus to Scyphacidae)

Schmidt, C. 2003. Contribution to the phylogenetic system of the Crinochaeta (Crustacea, Isopoda). Part 2. (Oniscoidea to Armadilliidiidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 79: 3-179 (assigned genus to Scyphacidae)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	PERACARIDA Calman, 1904	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lauren Timms (NMV) Dr Genefor Walker-Smith (NMV)
01-Jul-2020	ONISCOIDEA Latreille, 1802	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
18-May-2016	ONISCOIDEA Latreille, 1802	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
05-Aug-2022	ISOPODA Latreille, 1817	13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED
		13-Dec-2024	MODIFIED