Species Tullbergia australica Womersley, 1933

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• Tullbergia australica Womersley, H. 1933. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part I Superfamily Poduroidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 48-71 [68].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I22418, Crawley, WA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I22419.

  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. [62].
• Protullbergia salmoni Bagnall, R.S. 1947. Contributions toward a knowledge of the Tullbergiidae (Collembola: Onychiuroidea), I–III. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 11 14: 435-444 [441].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Patonga Bay, NSW.
  Paratype(s) BMNH 1951–230 (labelled Tulbergia salmoni); MONZ.

  Secondary source:

   Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644; Salmon, J.T. 1974. Concerning the Collembola Tullbergiinae. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 67: 1-19.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Salmon, J.T. 1974. Concerning the Collembola Tullbergiinae. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 67: 1-19 [2]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • South Australia: S Gulfs
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Soil dweller, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Moss.

 

General References

Najt, J. & Weiner, W.M. 1997. Collembola Poduromorpha de Nouvelle-Caledonie. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 171: 9-44 (suggest that this species may belong in Tillieria Weiner & Najt, 1991)

 

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)