Species Eosentomon womersleyi Bonet, 1942

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Regional Maps

• Eosentomon womersleyi Bonet, F. 1942. Sobre algunos Prouros de Mexico (Nota preliminar). Ciencia (Mexico) 3: 14-17 [16] [nom. nov. for Eosentomon millsi Womersley, 1939].
• Eosentomon millsi 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. [287] [junior primary homonym of Eosentomon millsi Womersley, 1938, an American species, see Womersley, H. 1938. On two new species of Protura from Iowa, U.S.A. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 33: 219–223 (221)].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I22239 ♂, Brown Hill Creek, Adelaide, SA.

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

See Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1–53.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

In leaf litter of Eucalyptus, Callitris, fig, tree-fern and Acacia in temperate rain forest, sclerophyll woodland, mainly wet, even very wet (coastal sand), but also dry soil and moss on rocks.

 

General References

Tuxen, S.L. 1961. Re-examination of the species Protura described by H. Womersley. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 63-106 [72] (taxonomy, description, type)

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. [134]

Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1-53 [7] (taxonomy, distribution)

 

History of changes

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