Genus Brachystomella Ågren, 1903

Museums

Regional Maps

• Probrachystomella Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [244].

  Type species:

   Brachystomella globulosa Cassagnau & Rapoport, 1962 by original designation.
• Brachygastura Rapoport, E.H. 1962. Colémbolos de Bahia Blanca (Argentina). IV. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 18: 443-455 [443].

  Type species:

   Brachygastura cyanea Rapoport, 1962 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Massoud, Z. 1967. Monographie des Neanuridae, Collemboles Poduromorphes à pièces buccales modifiées. Biologie de l'Amérique Australe 4: 1-399 [87] (also for extralimital synonymy)

 

Introduction

A brief summary is given by Greenslade (2018). In a molecular study that compared specimens from Australia and South Africa, Janion-Scheepers & Deharveng (2022) demonstrated that an undescribed species they refer to as Brachystomella cf. platensis is present in both locations.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

BRACHYSTOMELLIDAE: Brachystomella parvula (Schäffer, 1896) [incorrectly identified by Womersley (1933); Womersley (1934); Womersley (1937); Womersley (1939); King, Hutchinson & Greenslade, Penelope (1976); most specimens are Brachystomella platensis Najt & Massoud (1974), see Greenslade, Penelope & Najt, Judith (1987)]

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), 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), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), 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), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Neotropical Region

• Argentina

Distribution References

General References

Greenslade, P. 2018. Conspectus of Australian Brachystomellidae (Collembola) with description of new species of Rapoportella and redescription of Cassagnella anomala. European Journal of Entomology 115: 117–126

Greenslade, P. & Najt, Judith 1987. Collemboles Brachystomellinae de l'Australie. I. Les genres Brachystomella et Rapoportella. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ns 4: 435-453

Janion-Scheepers, C. & Deharveng, L. 2022. A shocking-red new species of Setanodosa Salmon, 1942 (Collembola: Brachystomellidae) from South Africa. Zootaxa 5154(4): 483-495

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

Womersley, H. 1933. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part I Superfamily Poduroidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 48-71

Womersley, H. 1934. Collembola (Springtails). Victorian Naturalist 51: 159-165

Womersley, H. 1937. The Collembola (Springtails) of Victoria. Victorian Naturalist 59: 114-116

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	19-Oct-2023	MODIFIED
27-Nov-2020	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	19-May-2022	MODIFIED
28-Jun-2018	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells
28-Sep-2017	COLLEMBOLA	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	COLLEMBOLA	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED