Species Metacoelura articulata (Schött, 1917)

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• Coelura articulata articulata Schött, H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 15. Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(8): 1-60 4 pls [25].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM 914, Alice River, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) NHRM 1203 (labelled as lectotype by J.T. Salmon, but not published).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Mitra, S.K. 1976. Status of Metacoelura Salmon, 1951 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Australia. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 13: 399-405.
• Coelura articulata semicolor Schött, H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 15. Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(8): 1-60 4 pls [26] [described as a colour variety; here retained as a subspecies since no chaetotaxic comparison with the nominate subspecies has been carried out].

  Type data:

   Lectotype NHRM 4172, Kimberley district, NW Australia.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA 1 specimen (in alcohol); NHRM 915 (not found); NHRM 916.

  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. [105] (based on examination of type series).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Man Y., Zhao, C. & Greenslade, P. 2016. A new species of Metacoelura (Collembola: Paronellidae) from Australia, and redescription of Metacoelura articulata. Zootaxa 4105(4): 381–388

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Schött, H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 15. Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(8): 1-60 4 pls [25]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

In native grasses

General References

Greenslade, P. & Mott, J.J. 1982. Collembola and other soil and surface fauna of native and improved pastures at Katherine, Northern Territory. pp. 299-307 in Lee, K.E. (ed.). Proceedings of the Third Australasian Conference on Grassland Invertebrate Ecology, Adelaide 30 Nov.–4 Dec. 1981. Adelaide : S.A. Government Printer.

Man Y., Zhao, C. & Greenslade, P. 2016. A new species of Metacoelura (Collembola: Paronellidae) from Australia, and redescription of Metacoelura articulata. Zootaxa 4105(4): 381–388 (redescribed on basis of freshly collected specimens from NT)

Mitra, S.K. 1976. Status of Metacoelura Salmon, 1951 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Australia. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 13: 399-405

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