Species Temeritas regalis (Womersley, 1939)

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Species Temeritas regalis (Womersley, 1939)

Sminthurus regalis Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. [258].
Type data:
Lectotype SAMA I22258 ♀, Inglewood, Torrens Gorge, SA.
Paralectotype(s) SAMA 3 specimens; SAMA I22259 juv.
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. [136].

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria

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

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Fungivore, open forest, terrestrial, woodland.

General References

Najt, J. 1969. Nouveaux documents sur le genre Temeritas et sa distribution géographique (Collembola: Symphypléone). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 5(4): 631-636 (locality data given incorrectly as that of Temeritas elegans (Womersley, 1939))

Womersley, H. 1942. New genera, species and records of Collembola from Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 66: 23-31 (records this species from Belgrave, VIC, but identification is probably incorrect; the specimen he refers to (Nov. 1941. OWT) was not found and specimens of Temeritas elegans (Womersley, 1933) have recently been collected from the Dandenong Ranges near Belgrave)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
28-Feb-2013	28-Feb-2013	MODIFIED
28-Feb-2013	19-Aug-2011	MODIFIED
	12-Feb-2010	(import)

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