Species Tasmanentulus tasmanicus (Tuxen, 1967)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Gracilentulus tasmanicus Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1-53 [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC ♀, Mt Wellington, TAS.

 

Distribution

States

Tasmania, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), 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), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Tasmania
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

In leaf litter of Dicksonia antarctica in wet sclerophyll forest.

 

General References

Tuxen, S.L. 1981. The systematic importance of the "striate band" and the abdominal legs in Acerentomidae (Insecta: Protura). With a tentative key to acerentomid genera. Entomologica Scandinavica. Supplementum 15: 125-140 [131] (generic position)

Womersley, H. 1936. A new species of Protura from Australia. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 72: 65-66 [65] (determined as Acerentulus sexspinatus Womersley, 1936)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Aug-2012		07-Aug-2012	MOVED
07-Aug-2012		07-Aug-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)