Family BOULETIELLIDAE
Compiler and date details
Penelope Greenslade, School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Introduction
This family was recognised by Richards' (1968) revision but is treated here a family following Betsch (1980), who raised Richards' seven subfamilies to family status. There are nine genera and 25 species in Australia. Nearly all species of Bourletiellini in Australia are native and possess adaptations which enable them to tolerate dry conditions. The genera Corynephoria and Rastriopes, with many undescribed species in arid and semi-arid areas, are examples.
Diagnosis
Characterised by: thorax I reduced and without setae, mandibular plate present, thorax II to abdomen IV more or less fused and globular, postantennal organ absent, antenna III equal to or shorter than antenna IV, fourth antennal segment annulated, mucro paddle shaped and lacking teeth and setae, trichobothria on large abdomen in a linear pattern.
General References
Betsch, J.M. 1980. Éléments pour une monographie des Collemboles Symphypléones. (Hexapodes, Aptérygotes). Mémoires du Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris Zool. 116: 1-227
Bretfeld, G. 1999. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. WinterDruck, Herrnhut : Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz Vol. 2 318 pp.
Richards, W.R. 1968. Generic classification, evolution and biogeography of the Sminthuridae of the world (Collembola). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 53: 1-54
Stach, J. 1956. The Apterygotan fauna of Poland in relation to the world-fauna of this group of insects. Family: Sminthuridae. Cracow : Pol. Akad. Nauk Pt 6 287 pp. 33 pls