Species Folsomia loftyensis Womersley, 1934

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• Folsomia loftyensis 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 [91].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I22307, Long Gully, Belair NP, Mt Lofty Ranges, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA.

  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. [39] (selected from Womersley slide material labelled 'syntype').

 

Generic Combinations

• Folsomia loftyensis Womersley, 1934. —
  Potapov, M.B. & Greenslade, P. 2010. Redescription of Folsomia loftyensis Womersley with notes on the sensillary arrangement of the genital segment in the genus (Collembola:Isotomidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger
• Cryptopygus loftyensis (Womersley, 1934). —
  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.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Pellion, Tas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, tall woodland, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Forest.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1974. Ecological and zoogeographical notes on Collembola of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Pedobiologia 14: 256-265 (as Folsomia loftyensis, ecology)

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.; as Folsomia loftyensis)

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. [69] (removed Folsomia loftyensis Womersley, 1934 to Cryptopygus, stating that although it then [became] a 'junior secondary homonym of Cryptopygus loftyensis Womersley, 1934: 88; the name [was] not rejected as Cryptopygus loftyensis Womersley, 1934: 88 [was] here transferred to Subisotoma Stach, 1947 and the taxa are no longer considered congeneric')

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Apr-2017	ISOTOMIDAE	07-Jul-2016	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
04-Mar-2010		02-May-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)