Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Contact us

Species Desoria tigrina Nicolet, 1842

Museums

Museum list

Regional Maps

Species Desoria tigrina Nicolet, 1842

Desoria tigrina Nicolet, H. 1842. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des Podurelles. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 6: 1-88 [59].
Type data:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (probably lost; Bellinger, P. in litt., 1984), Switzerland.
Type locality references:
Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
Spinisotoma dimorpha Womersley, H. 1934. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 86-138 [106].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA I22299 ♂, Urrbrae, Adelaide, SA.
Paratype(s) SAMA ♀ (on slide with holotype).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Najt, J. 1982. Contribution à l'étude du phénomène d'ecomorphose chez les Collemboles Isotomidae. These d'État [Sciences]. Toulouse : Université Paul Sabatier 271 pp. [page unknown]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

(map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

(map not available)

IBRA

SA, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Pastures of exotic grasses.

General References

Greenslade, P. 1990. Notes on the biogeography of the free-living terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Macquarie Island with an annotated checklist. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 124: 35-50 (Macquarie Is.)

Greenslade, P. 1990. Terrestrial invertebrates (excluding parasites and mites) of Macquarie Island. pp. 264-266 in Selkirk, P.M., Seppelt, R.D. & Selkirk, D.R. (eds). Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division. [96] (biology)

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

Wolters, V. 1991. Biological processes in two beech forest sols treated with simulated acid rain. A laboratory experiment with Isotoma tigrina (Insecta, Collembola). Soil Biochemistry 23: 381-390

Womersley, H. 1934. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 86-138 (as Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871)

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. (as Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871)

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)
28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)