Australian Biological Resources Study

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Genus Folsomides Stach, 1922

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Genus Folsomides Stach, 1922

  • Folsomides Stach, J. 1922. Apterygoten aus dem nordwestlichen Ungarn. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 19: 1-75 [17].
    Type species:
     Folsomides parvulus Stach, 1922 by original designation.
  • Varisotoma Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [351].
    Type species:
     Isotoma angularis Axelson, 1905 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • 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. [71]

 

Excluded Taxa

ISOTOMIDAE: Folsomides sexophthalma edenticulata Womersley, 1934, see Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 (recorded as Proisotoma sexopthalma edenticulata (Womersley, 1934) error for Isotoma Tridentifera edenticulata Womersley 1934).

ISOTOMIDAE: Folsomides marchicus Frenzel, 1941, see Greenslade, Penelope 1978. Collembola. pp. 114–123 in Low, W.A. (ed.). The physical and biological features of Kunoth Paddock in Central Australia. CSIRO Div. Land Res. Manag. Tech. Pap No. 4 (incorrect identification for Folsomides sp. indet.).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.


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

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), 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), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), 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), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), 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), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Northern Territory: Lake Eyre basin, W plateau
    • Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal, W plateau

Distribution References

  • Poinsot-Balaguer, N. & Barra, J.-A. 1982. Révision systématique du genre Folsomides et apport de l'écophysiologie à la taxonomie de certaines espèces du genre. (Insects: Collemboles) 2e note. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 19(2): 259-275