Species Folsomides parvulus Stach, 1922

Museums

Regional Maps

• Folsomides parvulus Stach, J. 1922. Apterygoten aus dem nordwestlichen Ungarn. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 19: 1-75 [17].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, KM (lost), Slovakia.
• Folsomides americanus Denis, J.R. 1931. Collemboles de Costa Rica avec une contribution au espèces de l'ordre. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Facoltà Agraria in Portici 25: 69-170 [126].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Apaican, Costa Rica.
• Folsomides exiguus Folsom, J.W. 1932. Hawaiian Collembola. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society 8(1): 51-92 [58].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BPBM 1 specimen, Honolulu, Hawaii; USNM, Honolulu, Hawaii.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cassagnau, P. & Delamare Deboutteville, Cl. 1955. Mission Henri Coiffait au Liban (1951). 3 Collemboles. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 91: 365-395 [379]
• Poinsot-Balaguer, N. & Barra, J.-A. 1982. Révision systématique du genre Folsomides et apport de l'écophysiologie à la taxonomie de certaines espèces du genre. (Insects: Collemboles) 2e note. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 19(2): 259-275 [259]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; White Mountains National Park [ref B2]; Jenolan, NSW.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
  • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
  • Western Australia: W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: transient.

Cave dweller, litter, soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Microvore, humid forests, agricultural soils.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1974. Ecological and zoogeographical notes on Collembola of Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Pedobiologia 14: 256-265

Greenslade, P. 1978. Collembola. pp. 114–123 in Low, W.A. (ed.). The physical and biological features of Kunoth Paddock in Central Australia. CSIRO Div. Land Res. Manag. Tech. Pap No. 4.

Greenslade, P. 1985. Phenology and diversity of epigaeic Collembola in the Mt Lofty Ranges. pp. 60–62 in Greenslade, Penelope & Majer, J.D. (eds) Soil and litter invertebrates of Australian mediterranean-type ecosystems. WAIT School of Biology Bulletin. No. 12.

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. & Greenslade, P.J.M. 1980. Relationships of some Isotomidae (Collembola) with habitat and other soil fauna. pp. 491-506 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. & 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. & Thompson, C.H. 1981. Collembola from the Cooloola-Noosa River area, Queensland. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 92: 11-19

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 (as Folsomides exiguus)

King, K.L., Hutchinson, K.J. & Greenslade, P. 1976. The effects of sheep numbers on associations of Collembola in sown pastures. Journal of Applied Ecology 13: 731-739

Potapov, M. 2001. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Volume 3. Isotomidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 73(2): 1-603

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

 

History of changes

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