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Species Folsomia candida Willem, 1902

White Springtail

 

Distribution

States

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


Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan; Jenolan, N.S.W.


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

NSW, 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), Sydney Basin (SB), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: troglophile.

Cave dweller, soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Horticultural and urban environments in nests of vertebrates and invertebrates.

 

General References

Amelsvoort, P.A.M. van & Usher, M.B. 1989. Egg production related to food quality in Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae): effects on life history strategies. Pedobiologia 33: 61-66

Booth, R.G. & Anderson, J.M. 1979. The influence of fungal food quality on the growth and fecundity of Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae). Oecologia (Berlin) Berl. 38: 317-323

Greenslade, P. 2002. Systematic composition and distribution of Australian Cave collembolan faunas with notes on exotic taxa. Helictite, Journal of Australasian Cave Research 38(1): 11-15 [13] (Distribution: Jenolan, NSW; Ecology: cave dweller)

Greenslade, P. & Majer, J.D. 1980. Collembola of rehabilitated mine sites in Western Australia. pp. 397-408 in Dindal, D. (ed.). Soil Biology as Related to Land Use Practices. Proceedings 7th Colloquium of Soil Zoology. New York : Environmental Protection Agency.

Greenslade, P.J. 1991. Collembola (Springtails). pp. 252-264 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp.

Hutson, B.R. 1978. Effects of variations of the plaster-charcoal culture method on a collembolan, Folsomia candida. Pedobiologia 18: 138-144 (life history)

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

Womersley, H. 1937. On the Collembolan (Entomobrya emeraldica Rayment, 1937) from Victoria. Arbeiten über Physiologische und Angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 4: 296 [296] (extralimital synonymy)

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. (part synonymy and Australian identification, as Folsomia fimetaria Linnaeus)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
28-Feb-2013 28-Feb-2013 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)