Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Pygmarrhopalites pygmaeus (Wankel, 1860)

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Species Pygmarrhopalites pygmaeus (Wankel, 1860)

  • Dicyrtoma pygmaeus Wankel, H. 1860. Beiträge zur Fauna der Mährischen Höhlen. Lotos. Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaften 10: 201-206 [203].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Slouper, Katherine Caves, Czech Republic.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.
  • Sminthurinus binoculatus Börner, C. 1901. Über einige theilweise neue Collembolen aus den Höhlen der Gegend von Letmathe in Westfalen. Zoologischer Anzeiger 24(645): 333-345 [343].
    Type data:
     Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (probably lost from ZMH in World War II), Letmathe Cave, Westfalen, Germany.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Christiansen, K. 1961. The genus Arrhopalites (Collembola: Sminthuridae) in the United States and Canada. International Journal of Speleology 2: 43-83 [64]

 

Generic Combinations

  • Pygmarrhopalites pygmaeus (Wankel, 1860). — Vargovitsh, R.S. 2009. New cave Arrhopalitidae (Collembola: Symphypleona) from the Crimea (Ukraine). Zootaxa 2047: 1-47.

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

In Australia known only from Long Gully, SA (doubtful indentification).


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: Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Ranges (CR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Nullarbor (NUL), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Soil, terrestrial.