Species Australentulus occidentalis (Womersley, 1932)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Acerentulus occidentalis Womersley, H. 1932. A preliminary account of the Protura of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 57: 69-75 [73].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I22242 ♀, University Grounds, Crawley, SA.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tuxen, S.L. 1961. Re-examination of the species Protura described by H. Womersley. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 63-106 [100].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

In Eucalyptus litter.

 

General References

Tuxen, S.L. 1964. The Protura. A revision of the species of the world with keys for determination. Actualités Sci. Industr. No. 1311 Problèmes d'écologie. Paris : Hermann 360 pp. [218] (taxonomy)

Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1-53 [20]

Womersley, H. 1939. Protura. pp. 279-289 in Womersley, H. (ed.). Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer. [285] (taxonomy)

 

History of changes

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