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Genus Parisotoma Bagnall, 1940

  • Parisotoma Bagnall, R.S. 1940. Notes on British Collembola. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 76: 163-174 [171].
    Type species:
     Isotoma notabilis Schäffer, 1896 by original designation.

 

Excluded Taxa

ISOTOMIDAE: Isotoma bipunctata Axelson, 1903, 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. [77] (misidentification of Folsomina similis Bagnall, 1939; based on examination of specimens).

ISOTOMIDAE: Isotoma (Parisotoma) octooculata Willem, 1901, see Greenslade, Penelope 1986. Additions to the Collembola fauna of Heard Island. Records of the South Australian Museum 19: 91-96 (misidentification of Isotoma (Parisotoma) punctata Wahlgren from Heard Is.).

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Probably 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

SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

IMCRA

Macquarie Island Province (24)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

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

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Victoria: SE coastal

Distribution References

  • Lawrence, P.N. 1969. Isotomidae from the Solomon Islands (Collembola). Pacific Insects 11(3–4): 545-559

General References

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division [98] (biology)