Species Eosentomon australicum Womersley, 1939

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Species Eosentomon australicum Womersley, 1939

Eosentomon millsi australica Womersley, H. 1939. Protura. pp. 279-289 in Womersley, H. (ed.). Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer. [289].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA I22255 ♀, Onkaparinga River, Noarlunga, SA (misspelled as Kapringa).
Subsequent designation references:
Tuxen, S.L. 1964. The Protura. A revision of the species of the world with keys for determination. Actualités Sci. Industr. No. 1311 Problèmes d'écologie. Paris : Hermann 360 pp. [122].
Type locality references:
Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1-53 [6].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

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)

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

IBRA

SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Litter.

General References

Bernard, E.C. 1976. Observations on the eggs of Eosentomon australicum (Protura: Eosentomidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 95: 129-130 (species observed was subsequently described as Eosentomon snideri Bernard in Bernard, E.C. 1990. New species, clarifications, and changes in status with Eosentomon Berlese (Hexapoda: Protura: Eosentomidae) from the United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 103: 861–890, E.C. Bernard, pers. comm.)

Tuxen, S.L. 1964. The Protura. A revision of the species of the world with keys for determination. Actualités Sci. Industr. No. 1311 Problèmes d'écologie. Paris : Hermann 360 pp. [122] (redescription)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
07-Aug-2012	07-Aug-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012	07-Aug-2012	MOVED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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