Introduction

This is a family of rare, cave and soil-living forms. Only one species is described from Australia. It is found in Nothofagus rainforests in southern Victoria and Tasmania but the Tasmanian specimens may represent a different species. An undescribed species occurs in caves in New South Wales.

Australian species are characterised by: thorax I reduced and without setae, mandibular plate present, ocelli and pigment absent, abdomen III approximately equal to IV, dens with spines, postantennal organ present, mucro long and multidentate and half length of dens, hyaline scales present.

Diagnosis

Australian species characterised by: thorax I reduced and without setae, mandibular plate present, ocelli and pigment absent, abdomen III approximately equal to IV, dens with spines, postantennal organ present, mucro long and multidentate and half length of dens, hyaline scales present.

General References

Bonet, F. 1943. Sobre la classification de los Oncopoduridae (Collembola) con descripcion de especies nuevas. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 3: 127-153

Szeptycki, A. 1977. Morpho-systematic studies on Collembola. V. The body chaetotaxy of the genera Oncopodura Carl & Lebedinsky, 1905 and Harlomillsia Bonet, 1944. (Oncopoduridae). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 14: 199-209

History of changes

• Oncopodura Carl, J. & Lebedinsky, J. 1905. Materialen zur Höhlenfauna der Krim. II Ausfsatz. Ein neuer typus von Höhlenapterygoten. Zoologischer Anzeiger 28: 562-565 [564] [Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1–144, 145–644 erroneously states that the type species had been subsequently selected by Yosii, R. 1939. A new cyphoderiid collembolan from Japan. Annot. Zool. Jap. 18: 95–100].

  Type species:

   Oncopodura hamata Carl & Lebedinsky, 1905 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Yosii, R. 1939. A new cyphoderiid collembolan from Japan. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 18: 95-100; Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644; Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Distribution References

History of changes

• Oncopodura tiegsi Womersley, H. 1942. New genera, species and records of Collembola from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 23-31 [27].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA I22278, Belgrave, Dandenongs, VIC.

Distribution

States

Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Known only from type locality.

IBRA

Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Forest, leaf litter.

History of changes