Species Ballistura filifera (Denis, 1931)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Proisotoma filifera Denis, J.R. 1931. Collemboles de Costa Rica avec une contribution au espèces de l'ordre. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Facoltà Agraria in Portici 25: 69-170 [112].

  Type data:

   Holotype LZFD (now probably at MNHP, Najt, J. (see Greenslade, P. 1994. Collembola. pp. 19–138 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 22. Protura, Collembola, Diplura. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xii 188 pp. [81])), Costa Rica.

  Secondary source:

   Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.

 

Generic Combinations

• Ballistura filifera (Denis, 1931). —
  Potapov, M. 2001. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Volume 3. Isotomidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 73(2): 1-603

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

 

General References

Ellis, W.N. 1970. Proisotoma filifera Denis in Holland, with a note on its classification (Collembola, Isotomidae). Entomologische Berichten (Amsterdam) 30: 18-24 (presenting alternative taxonomic arrangement as Proisotoma (Clavisotoma) filifera Denis, 1931)

King, K.L., Greenslade, P. & Hutchinson, K.J. 1985. Collembolan associations in natural versus improved pastures of the New England Tableland NSW: distribution of native and introduced species. Australian Journal of Ecology 10: 421-427

King, K.L., Hutchinson, K.J. & Greenslade, P. 1976. The effects of sheep numbers on associations of Collembola in sown pastures. Journal of Applied Ecology 13: 731-739 (ecology)

 

History of changes

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