Species Ceratophysella communis (Folsom, 1897)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Achorutes communis Folsom, J.W. 1897. Japanese Collembola. Bulletin of the Essex Institute 29: 51-57 [52].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) USNM, Tokyo, Japan.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan, Australia; South America.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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 North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Fungi, dung, carrion, exotic pastures.

 

General References

Davidson, S.J. 1979. Mesofaunal responses to cattle dung with particular reference to Collembola. Pedobiologia Ecology 19: 402-407 (as Hypogastrura sp. communis group, ecology)

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, ecology, as Hypogastrura (Ceratophysella) sp. cf engadinensis Gisin, 1949)

Thibaud, J., Schulz, H. & da Gama Assalino, M.M. 2004. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Herrnut : Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz Vol. 4 pp. 1-287.

Thibaud, J.-M. 1970. Biologie et écologie des collemboles Hypogastruridae édaphiques et cavernicoles. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 61: 83-201 (physiology)

 

History of changes

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