Species Willowsia jacobsoni (Börner, 1913)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sira jacobsoni Börner, C. 1913. Zur Collembolenfauna Javas. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 56: 44-61 [49].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH Arachn. 837–840, Semarang, Java.
• Sira tricincta Schött, H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 15. Collembola. Arkiv för Zoologi 11(8): 1-60 4 pls [31].

  Type data:

   Holotype NHRM 1410, Ravenshoe (as Cedar Creek), QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Womersley, H. 1937. New species and records of Australian Collembola. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 154-157 [156]

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Probably pantropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Victoria: SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial, under bark.

Extra Ecological Information

In leaf bracts of garden trees and in urban situations.

 

General References

Mari Mutt, J.A. 1981. Redescription of Willowsia jacobsoni (Börner) an Entomobryid with conspicuous sexual dimophism (Insecta: Collembola). Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 65: 361-373

Mari Mutt, J.A., Almodovar, R.G., Rivera Diez, I. & Gutierrez Martinez, F. 1984. Effects of temperature on the embryonic development of Willowsia jacobsoni (Börner) (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 20: 57-66

Womersley, H. 1934. A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 58: 86-138 (as Sira abrupta)

Womersley, H. 1937. New species and records of Australian Collembola. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 51: 154-157 (as Sira abrupta)

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 (as Sira abrupta; record of the species from VIC is a doubtful identification)

 

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)