Species Proisotoma brisbanensis Womersley, 1935

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• Proisotoma brisbanensis Womersley, H. 1935. On some new species and records of Australian and New Zealand Collembola. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 59: 207-218 [215].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I22316, Chippeway bore drains, St George, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA.

  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. [80].

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

White Mountains National Park [ref B2].

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Murchison (MUR), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Victorian Midlands (VM), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: NW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1981. Survival of Collembola in arid environments: observations in South Australia and the Sudan. Journal of Arid Environments 4: 219-228

Greenslade, P.J. 1991. Collembola (Springtails). pp. 252-264 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press Vol. 1 xiii 542 pp.

Greenslade, P.J.M. & Greenslade, P. 1973. Epigaeic Collembola and their activity in a semi-arid locality in southern Australia during summer. Pedobiologia 13: 227-235

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)