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Species Berberentulus capensis (Womersley, 1931)

Acerentulus capensis Womersley, H. 1931. A South African species of Protura. Annals of the South African Museum 30: 89-91 [89].
Type data:
Lectotype SAM maturus junior, Orangezicht, Cape Town, South Africa.
Subsequent designation references:
Tuxen, S.L. 1961. Re-examination of the species Protura described by H. Womersley. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 14: 63-106 [93].

Distribution

States

New South Wales

Extra Distribution Information

Cape Town and N America.

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)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

NSW: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

South Africa

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: SE coastal

Nearctic Region

Palaearctic Region

France
Portugal

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, terrestrial.

Extra Ecological Information

Leaf litter of tree-fern, Cyathea sp.?, wet sclerophyll forest, leaf mould.

General References

Imadaté, G. 1980. Occurence of Berberentulus (Protura: Acerentomidae) in North America. Kontyû 48: 100-103 (taxonomy, as geographical race of Berberentulus capensis)

Lamb, K.P. 1962. The first record of the order Protura in New South Wales. pp. 417–418 in, Abstract of Proceedings. Ordinary monthly meeting. 28th Novermber, 1962. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 87: 416-418 [417] (first Australian record, distribution)

Nosek, J. 1973. The European Protura. Their taxonomy, ecology and distribution with keys for determination. Geneva : Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 345 pp. [229] (taxonomy, extralimital synonymy, distribution)

Tuxen, S.L. 1964. The Protura. A revision of the species of the world with keys for determination. Actualités Sci. Industr. No. 1311 Problèmes d'écologie. Paris : Hermann 360 pp. [311] (taxonomy)

Tuxen, S.L. 1967. Australian Protura, their phylogeny and zoogeography. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 5: 1-53 [43] (taxonomy, distribution)

Tuxen, S.L. 1977. Protura (Insecta) from Angola and Nigeria with a key to subsaharan Protura. Publicaçoes Culturais da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 89: 177-193 [177] (distribution)

History of changes

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

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)