Species Entomobrya termitophila Schött, 1917

Museums

Regional Maps

• Entomobrya termitophila Schött, H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 15. Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(8): 1-60 4 pls [12].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM 1019, Mt Tamborine (as Mt Tambourine), QLD [27.9422°S, 153.1936°E].
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM 1020; SAMA 1 specimen (in alcohol); MONZ 1 specimen.

  Subsequent designation 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. [91] (after examination of Schött material (selected by J.T. Salmon)).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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. [91]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Pellion, TAS.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial, under bark, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Forest, leaf litter.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1990. Collembola and other soil invertebrates (1990). pp. 47-56 in Driessen, M.M., Comfort, M.D., Jackson, J., Balmer, J., Richardson, A.M.M. & McQuillan, P.B. (eds). Pelion Plains — Mt Ossa. Wilderness Ecosystems Baseline Studies 1990–1993. Hobart, Tasmania : Parks and Wildlife Service Wildlife Report Vol. 2. [49] (Distribution: Pellion, Tas.)

Jordana, R. & Greenslade, P. 2020. Biogeographical and ecological insights from Australasian faunas: the megadiverse collembolan genus, Entomobrya (Entomobryidae). Zootaxa 4770(1): 1-104 [72, Figs 3H, 5O–P, 39A–F]

Womersley, H. 1937. New species and records of Australian Collembola. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 154-157

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jul-2020	ENTOMOBRYIDAE Schäffer, 1896	19-May-2020	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)