Genus Lepidobrya Womersley, 1937

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepidobrya Womersley, H. 1937. Collembola. British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition Reports, Series B (Zoology and Botany) 4(1): 1-7 [4].

  Type species:

   Entomobrya mawsoni Tillyard, 1920 by original designation.

 

Introduction

Following revision of diagnosis and redescription of the type, Leptobrya mawsoni, Zhang et al. (2017) removed the genus from tribe Willosiini tp subfamily Entomobryiinae.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Subantarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

General References

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division. [104] (biology)

Zhang, F., Greenslade, P. & Stevens, M.I. 2017. A revision of the genus Lepidobrya Womersley (Collembola: Entomobryidae) based on morphology and sequence data of the genotype. Zootaxa 4221(5): 523–536 (revised diagnosis; type redescribed)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
04-Apr-2017	ENTOMOBRYIDAE	30-Jan-2017	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)