Species Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, 1758

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• Lepisma saccharina Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [608].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, America, Europe, Sweden.
• Forbicina plana Geoffrey, E.L. 1762. Forbicina. pp. 611-614 in Geoffrey, E.L. Histoire abregée des insects qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris. Paris : Durand Vol. 2 616 pp. [613].
• Lepisma vulgaris Scopoli, G.A. 1763. Entomologia Carniolica, exhibens Insecta Carniolæ indigena et distributa in ordines, genera, species, varietates, methodo Linnæana. Vindobonae [=Vienna] : Trattner xxxvi 420 pp. [378].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Carniolia.

  Type locality references:

  Irish, J. in Smith, G.B. 1998. Zygentoma. pp. 7-20, 404-406 (Index) in Houston, W.W.K. & Wells, A. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Archaeognatha, Zygentoma, Blattodea, Isoptera, Mantodea, Dermaptera, Phasmatodea, Embioptera, Zoraptera. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia Vol. 23 xiii 464 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Paclt, J. 1967. Thysanura, Fam. Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, Lepismatidae. Genera Insectorum 218: 1-86.
• Lepisma semicylindrica De Geer, C. 1783. Lepisma. p. 198 in Genera et species insectorum e generosissimi auctoris scriptis. Lipsiae: Apud Sigfried Lebrecht Crusium. 252pp. [198].
• Lepisma quercetorum Wygodzinsky, P. 1945. Contribuição ao conhecimento dos Entotrophi e Thysanura de Portugal. III. Familia Lepismatidae (Thysanura) 1. Conclusões. Revista Brasileira de Biologia 5: 419-433 [419].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Serra da Arrábida, Portugal.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Paclt, J. 1967. Thysanura, Fam. Lepidotrichidae, Maindroniidae, Lepismatidae. Genera Insectorum 218: 1-86 [19] (Lepisma vulgaris)
• Mendes, L.F. 1988. Revisão do género Lepisma Lin., 1758 s. lat. (Zygentoma, Lepismatidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia Suppl. 2: 1-235 [25] (Lepisma quercetorum)

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Murray-Darling basin*, NSW, QLD*, SA, VIC; cosmopolitan.

Introduced from unknown country.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), 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), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Omnivore, peridomestic.

Extra Ecological Information

Free-living in W Palaearctic.

 

General References

Laibach, E. 1952. Lepisma saccharina L. das Silberfischen. Zeitschrift für hygeienische Zoologie und Schädlingsbekämpf 40: 321-370 (biology)

Smith, G. 2015. Australian Lepismatinae (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae). General and Applied Entomology 43: 25-36 [27]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Sep-2016	LEPISMATIDAE	12-Jan-2016	MODIFIED	Lyn Randall
07-Aug-2012		07-Aug-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)