Species Bourletiella viridescens Stach, 1920

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bourletiella signata viridescens Stach, J. 1920. Vorarbeiten zur Apterygoten-Fauna Polens II. Apterygoten aus den Pieniny. Bulletin International de l'Académie Polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres, Classe des Sciences Matématique et Naturelles Sci. Nat. 1919: 133-233 [199] [proposed as a variety of Bourletiella signata (Ågren, 1903)].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Pieniny Mts, Poland.

  Secondary source:

   Gisin, H. 1960. Collembolenfauna Europas. Geneva : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 312 pp.; Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
• Bourletiella arvalis fusca Womersley, H. 1932. The Collembola-Symphypleona of Australia: A preliminary account. CSIRO Pamphlet No. 34. Melbourne : Government Printer 47 pp. [27] [described as a colour variety of Bourletiella arvalis Fitch, 1863 but misidentified].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) WADA, Blackwood River, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Greenslade, P. 1994. Collembola. pp. 19-138 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Protura, Collembola, Diplura. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 22 188 pp. [120] (based on examination of types)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Grassland, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Exotic pasture plants only.

 

General References

Betsch, J.M. 1980. Éléments pour une monographie des Collemboles Symphypléones. (Hexapodes, Aptérygotes). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] Zool. 116: 1-227 (distribution)

Greenslade, P. & Ireson, J.E. 1986. Collembola of the southern Australian culture steppe and urban environments: a review of their pest status and key to identification. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 273-292 (key)

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

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 (ecology)

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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