Species Folsomides deserticola Wood, 1970

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• Folsomides deserticola Wood, T.G. 1970. A new species of Folsomides Stach (Collembola: Isotomidae) from Australia, with a note on Folsomides sexophthalma (Womersley). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 9: 79-82 [79] [several species of Folsomides included in this taxon].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I22313 ♀, 20 m W of Renmark, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA 2♂ 4♀; ANIC ♂ 4♀; USNM 4♀; BMNH 4♀.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, low open woodland, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Microvore.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1981. Survival of Collembola in arid environments: observations in South Australia and the Sudan. Journal of Arid Environments 4: 219-228

Greenslade, P.J.M. & Greenslade, P. 1973. Epigaeic Collembola and their activity in a semi-arid locality in southern Australia during summer. Pedobiologia 13: 227-235

Suhardjono, Y.R. & Greenslade, P. 1994. Folsomides arnoldi n. sp. (Isotomidae): a new Collembolan abundant in arid Australia, with a redescription of Folsomides denisi (Womersley). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 114: 21-27

Wood, T.G. 1971. The distribution and abundance of Folsomides deserticola (Collembola: Isotomidae) and other micro-arthropods in arid and semi-arid soils in southern Australia, with a note on nematode populations. Pedobiologia 11: 446-468 (ecology)

 

History of changes

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28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)