Species Entomobrya nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Podura nivalis Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [609].

  Type data:

   Holotype LZFD (probably now at MHNP, Najt, J. (see Greenslade, P. 1994. Collembola. pp. 19–138 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 22. Protura, Collembola, Diplura. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia xii 188 pp. [90])), Europe, probably Upsala, Sweden.

  Type locality references:

  Greenslade, P. 1994. Collembola. pp. 19-138 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Protura, Collembola, Diplura. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 22 188 pp. [90].

  Secondary source:

   Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
• Entomobrya nivalis immaculata Schäffer, C. 1896. Die Collembolen der Umgebung von Hamburg und benachbarter Gebiete. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 13: 149-216 [195].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, nr Hamburg, Germany.
• Entomobrya nivalis dorsalis Ågren, H. 1904. Lappländische Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 2: 1-30 [22].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Lapland.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• South, A. 1961. The Taxonomy of the British species of Entomobrya (Collembola). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 113: 387-416 [403]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

On shrubs and on bark of trees.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1985. Phenology and diversity of epigaeic Collembola in the Mt Lofty Ranges. pp. 60–62 in Greenslade, Penelope & Majer, J.D. (eds) Soil and litter invertebrates of Australian mediterranean-type ecosystems. WAIT School of Biology Bulletin. No. 12.

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 (ecology)

King, K.L., Greenslade, P. & Hutchinson, K.J. 1985. Collembolan associations in natural versus improved pastures of the New England Tableland NSW: distribution of native and introduced species. Australian Journal of Ecology 10: 421-427 (ecology)

Ponge, J.F. 1983. Les Collemboles, indicateurs du type d'humus en milieu foresties. Résultats obtiens au Sud du Paris. Acta Oecologica, Oecologia Generalis 4: 359-374 (ecology)

Stach, J. 1963. The Apterygotan fauna of Poland in relation to the world-fauna of this group of insects. Tribe: Entomobryini. Cracow : Pol. Akad. Nauk Pt 9 126 pp. 43 pls.

 

History of changes

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		12-Feb-2010	(import)