Genus Isotoma Bourlet, 1839

Museums

Regional Maps

• Isotoma 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 [399] [not Isotoma Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera) or Isotoma Dejean, 1837 (Coleoptera), which are nomina nuda and were placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology: 105 and 106, Opinion 291].

  Type species:

   Isotoma viridis Bourlet, 1839 by subsequent designation, see Börner, C. 1903. Über neue Altweltliche Collembolen, nebst Bemerkungen zur Systematik der Isotominen und Entomobryinen. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1903(3): 129-182 [171]

  Compiled from secondary source:

   Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74.
• Australotoma Bagnall, R.S. 1949. Contributions towards a knowledge of the Isotomidae (Collembola). VII–XV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12 2: 82-96 [89].

  Type species:

   Isotoma (Isotoma) swani Womersley, 1934 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Salmon, J.T. 1974. Concerning the Collembola Tullbergiinae. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 67: 1-19 [382]
• Potapov, M. 2001. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Volume 3. Isotomidae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz 73(2): 1-603

 

Taxonomic Decision for Subgeneric Arrangement

• Deharveng, L. 1981. Collemboles des Îles subantarctiques de l'Ocean Indien. Mission J. Travé 1972–1973 pp. 33–108. in, Biologie des Sols. Comité Natl. Fr. Rech. Antarc. 48: 1–169 [82]

 

Excluded Taxa

ISOTOMIDAE: Isotoma olivacea Tullberg, 1871, see Fjellberg, A. 1979. Revision of the European species in the Isotoma olivacea-group (Collembola: Isotomidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 10: 91-108 (misidentification of Isotoma (Desoria) tigrina Nicolet, 1842).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Broken Hill, cosmopolitan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), 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), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

• Macquarie Island (Aust. Terr.)
• Subantarctic Islands
  • Kerguélen Island

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
  • Tasmania
  • Victoria: SE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal
• New Zealand

Neotropical Region

Distribution References

General References

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division [101] (biology)