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Genus Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839

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Genus Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839

  • Hypogastrura Bourlet, L'Abbe 1839. Mémoire sur les Podures. Mémoires de la Société Royale des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille 1: 377-417 [404].
    Type species:
     Achorutes viaticus Tullberg, 1872 by designation under Plenary Powers, see ICZN 1956. Opinion 435. Suppression under the Plenary Powers of the generic name Achorutes Templeton, 1835, and designation under the same Powers of type species in harmony with current usage for the genera Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839, and Neanura MacGillivray, 1839 (Class Insecta, Order Collembola). In, Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 14(21): 425-458 (placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology)

 

Excluded Taxa

HYPOGASTRURIDAE: Hypogastrura armata Nicolet, 1841, see 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. [50] [after examination of material determined by Womersley].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; Eyre Peninsula.


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, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Ben Lomond (BEL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

  • Thibaud, J.-M. 1970. Biologie et écologie des collemboles Hypogastruridae édaphiques et cavernicoles. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris A 61: 83-201

General References

Greenslade, P. 1995. Report on invertebrates of the Marble Range region, Eyre Peninsula. South Australian Naturalist 69(3-4): 4-8 [10] (Distribution: Eyre Peninsula)

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division [86] (biology)