Species Setanodosa capitata (Womersley, 1934)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Brachystomella capitata Womersley, H. 1934. On some Collembola-Arthropleona from South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the South African Museum 30(3): 441-475 [450] [material in SAMA and SAM was not labelled as 'cotype' although of same locality, date and collector as that given by Womersley in the original description (earliest collection); material from Stellenbosch of a later date is probably a different species].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) SAM, Cape Town, South Africa; SAMA I22563, Cape Town, South Africa.

  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. [46] (locality of 'cotypes' not specified in Womersley's original description).

 

Distribution

States

South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

On pools.

 

General References

Massoud, Z. 1967. Monographie des Neanuridae, Collemboles Poduromorphes à pièces buccales modifiées. Biologie de l'Amérique Australe 4: 1-399 (date incorrectly given as 1930)

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. (date incorrectly given as 1930)

 

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)