Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Genus Protaphorura Absolon, 1901

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Genus Protaphorura Absolon, 1901

  • Protaphorura Absolon, K. 1901. Weitere Nachricht über europäische Höhlencollembolen und über die Gattung Aphorura A. D. MacG. Zoologischer Anzeiger 24: 375-381, 385-389 [387] [first introduced as a subgenus of Aphorura MacGillivray, 1893].
    Type species:
     Lipura armata Tullberg, 1869 by subsequent designation, see Börner, C. 1909. Japans Collembolenfauna. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1909(2): 99-135 [102]

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644 [163]

 

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

Qld, SA, Tas, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), 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 Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Antarctic Region

  • Subantarctic Islands

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland
    • South Australia: S Gulfs, SE coastal
    • Tasmania
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Palaearctic Region

Distribution References

  • Greenslade, Penelope & Wise, K.A.J. 1984. Additions to the Collembolan fauna of the Antarctic. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 203-205

General References

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division [81] (biology)