Genus Protaphorura Absolon, 1901

Museums

Regional Maps

• Protaphorura Absolon, K. 1901. Weitere Nachricht über europäische Höhlencollembolen und über die Gattung Aphorura A. D. MacG. Zoologischer Anzeiger 24: 375-381, 385-389 [387] [first introduced as a subgenus of Aphorura MacGillivray, 1893].

  Type species:

   Lipura armata Tullberg, 1869 by subsequent designation, see Börner, C. 1909. Japans Collembolenfauna. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1909(2): 99-135 [102].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [163]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Probably cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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 Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Other Regions

Macquarie Island terrestrial & freshwater

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

General References

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division. [81] (biology)

 

History of changes

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28-Feb-2013		28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)