Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Mesaphorura macrochaeta Rusek, 1976

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Species Mesaphorura macrochaeta Rusek, 1976

  • Mesaphorura macrochaeta Rusek, J. 1976. New Onychiuridae (Collembola) from Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Zoology 54: 19-41 [33].
    Type data:
     Holotype ISBC (Rusek coll.), Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Is., British Columbia, Canada.
    Paratype(s) ISBC (Rusek coll.); CFS (Marshall coll.).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan (?except Antarctica).


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: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: SE coastal
    • South Australia: S Gulfs

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

 

General References

Greenslade, P. 1992. New records of Mesaphorura (Collembola: Onychiuridae, Tullbergiinae) species from Australia, Macquarie Island and the Antarctic. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 116: 141-143

Rusek, J. 1979. Ecological specialisation in some Mesaphorura species (Collembola, Tullbergiinae). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 76: 1-9