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Family CAMPODEIDAE


Compiler and date details

W.W.K. Houston, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Introduction

The family is represented in Australia by ten described and one undescribed species in four genera in the ubiquitous subfamily Campodeinae. Two of these species, Campodea (Campodea) fragilis Meinert and C. (Monocampa) tonnoiri Womersley, however, are probably introduced. Condé (1955), in a monograph on the Campodeidae, listed Campodea waterhousei Womersley as in incertae sedis but believed that it may belong to the subgenus Indocampa.

Australian members of this family are 2–6 mm in length, whitish and have long, moniliform antennae; cerci are paired, long, filiform and many segmented and resemble antennae; the thorax has three pairs of spiracles but the abdomen lacks spiracles; and the antennae have trichobothria on segments 3–6.

The pantropical subfamily Lepidocampinae is unknown from Australia but, as it forms about 90% of the Papua New Guinea fauna, it may occur in Queensland (Condé 1982).

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
07-Aug-2012 07-Aug-2012 MOVED
07-Aug-2012 07-Aug-2012 MOVED
12-Feb-2010 (import)