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).
General References
Condé, B. 1955. Matériaux pour une monographie des Diploures Campodéidés. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] (A) Zoologie 12: 1-202
Condé, B. 1982. Diploures Campodéidés de Papouasie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 89: 731-748
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 07-Aug-2012 | 07-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 07-Aug-2012 | 07-Aug-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |