Species Hypogastrura purpurescens (Lubbock, 1868)

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• Achorutes purpurescens Lubbock, J. 1868. Notes on the Thysanura. Part III. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26(part I): 295-304 [publication date established from Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1–144, 145–644] [302].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, probably Downe, Kent, England.
• Hypogastrura pseudopurpurascens Womersley, H. 1928. A new British species of Collembola. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10 2: 593-595 [593].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I22345 (12.viii.28 found on or under loose bark on a stump), Flax Bourton, Somerset, England.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I22345a, I22346.

  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. [51] (selected from material labelled as 'types' by Womersley).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [226]
• Betsch, J.M. 1980. Éléments pour une monographie des Collemboles Symphypléones. (Hexapodes, Aptérygotes). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] Zool. 116: 1-227

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan; Pelion, Tas.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), 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), 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)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • South Australia: SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Moss, grasses.

 

General References

Cassagnau, P. & Ferrero, M. 1966. Contribution à l'étude des écomorphoses: II. Phénologie comparée de quatre races d'Hypogastrura purpurescens (Collembole Poduromorphe). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 3(2): 223-240 (ecomorphosis)

Gama, M.M. da 1986. Systématique évolutive des Xenylla. XIV. Espèces provenant de Thaïland, Bornéo, Australie et Norfolk, Galápagos, Mexique et Curaçao (Insecta: Collembola). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 93: 271-277

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.)

Greenslade, P. 1998. Collembola and other soil invertebrates (1992). pp. 57-65 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, Tamania : Parks and Wildlife Service Wildlife Report Vol. 2. [61] (Distribution: Pelion, Tas.)

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division. [86] (biology)

Greenslade, P. & Ireson, J.E. 1986. Collembola of the southern Australian culture steppe and urban environments: a review of their pest status and key to identification. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 273-292 (key, ecology)

Greenslade, P. & Wise, K.A.J. 1986. Collembola of Macquarie Island. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 23: 67-97 (key, distribution)

Milne, S. 1960. Studies on the life histories of various species of arthropleone Collembola. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (A) 35: 133-140 (life history)

Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [255] (extralimital synonymy)

Strebel, O. 1932. Beiträge zur Biologie, Ökologie und Physiologie einheimischer Collembolen. Zeitschrift für die Morphologie und Ökologie die Tiere 25: 31-153 [35]

Thibaud, J.-M. 1970. Biologie et écologie des collemboles Hypogastruridae édaphiques et cavernicoles. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A 61: 83-201 (physiology)

Womersley, H. 1936. Further records and descriptions of Australian Collembola. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 5(4): 475-485 (Macquarie Is.)

 

History of changes

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