Genus Folsomia Willem, 1902

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• Folsomia Willem, V. 1902. Note préliminaire sur les Collemboles des Grottes de Han et de Rochefort. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique (Comptes-rendus) 46: 275-283 [280].

  Type species:

   Folsomia candida Willem, 1902 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74.

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

ISOTOMIDAE: Folsomia fimetaria Linnaeus, 1758 — 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; Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl.

ISOTOMIDAE: Folsomia fimetarioides Axelson, 1903 — 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 (misidentification of Cryptopygus caecus, Walhgren, 1906); Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl.

misidentification of Folsomia candida Willem, 1902

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; Eyre Peninsula.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL) ; NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Sydney Basin (SB) ; Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Vic: Riverina (RIV)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal
• New Zealand

Distribution References

General References

Greenslade, P. 1995. Report on invertebrates of the Marble Range region, Eyre Peninsula. South Australian Naturalist 69(3-4): 4-8 [10] (Distribution: Eyre Peninsula)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
27-Nov-2020	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	19-May-2022	MODIFIED
28-Jun-2018	COLLEMBOLA Lubbock, 1870	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED	Dr Alice Wells
28-Sep-2017	COLLEMBOLA	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	COLLEMBOLA	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	ISOTOMIDAE	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	ISOTOMIDAE	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
04-Apr-2017	ISOTOMIDAE	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED