Species Sminthurus viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Species Sminthurus viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Clover Springtail, Lucerne Flea

Podura viridis 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:
Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Upsala, Sweden, Lawrence P.N. (pers. comm. in Greenslade (1994: 134)).
Type locality 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.
Secondary source:
Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
Arrhopalites adelaidica Womersley, H. 1933. On some additions to the sminthurid fauna of Australia. Stylops 2: 241-247 [241] [the type series contains three slides labelled 'Arrhopalites adelaidica det. by Womersley'; one, from Glen Osmond, is labelled 'type', the other two, from Adelaide, are labelled 'cotype'; the two specimens from Adelaide, however, belong to another species Jeannenotia stachi (Jeannenot, 1955)].
Type data:
Holotype SAMA I22227 (1st instar), Glen Osmond, SA.
Sminthurus multidentatus Greenslade, P. 2015. Updating the New Zealand checklist of Collembola: a synonymy and new combinations. New Zealand Journal of Zoology (synonymy of S. multidentatus; removed to subfamily Pseudachorutinae from Uchidanurinae) [subfamily Pseudachorutinae].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

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. [134] (based on examination of types)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Europe; South America.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), 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), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

South Africa

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
- Tasmania
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
- Western Australia: SW coastal
New Zealand