Family ONCOPODURIDAE
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Penelope Greenslade, School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Introduction
This is a family of rare, cave and soil-living forms. Only one species is described from Australia. It is found in Nothofagus rainforests in southern Victoria and Tasmania but the Tasmanian specimens may represent a different species. An undescribed species occurs in caves in New South Wales.
Australian species are characterised by: thorax I reduced and without setae, mandibular plate present, ocelli and pigment absent, abdomen III approximately equal to IV, dens with spines, postantennal organ present, mucro long and multidentate and half length of dens, hyaline scales present.
Diagnosis
Australian species characterised by: thorax I reduced and without setae, mandibular plate present, ocelli and pigment absent, abdomen III approximately equal to IV, dens with spines, postantennal organ present, mucro long and multidentate and half length of dens, hyaline scales present.
General References
Bonet, F. 1943. Sobre la classification de los Oncopoduridae (Collembola) con descripcion de especies nuevas. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 3: 127-153
Szeptycki, A. 1977. Morpho-systematic studies on Collembola. V. The body chaetotaxy of the genera Oncopodura Carl & Lebedinsky, 1905 and Harlomillsia Bonet, 1944. (Oncopoduridae). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 14: 199-209