Species Heterolepisma kraepelini Silvestri, 1908

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heterolepisma kraepelini Silvestri, F. 1908. Thysanura. pp. 47-68, figs 128-141 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : G. Fischer Vol. 2. [50].

  Type data:

   Holotype IEA ♀ (part, as slide preparation, in poor condition; only 1♀ was originally described but there is a ♂ labelled 'typus' and three juveniles from Yalgoo in ZMB (in alcohol) which are probably part of the original collection), Yalgoo, WA.

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

SA, Tas, WA: Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Cryptozoic, omnivore, under bark.

General References

Smith, G.B. 2016. On some Silverfish Taxa from Tasmania (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae and Nicoletiidae). Records of the Australian Museum 68(2): 45–80 [58]

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [27] (distribution)

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