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Genus Sminthurides Börner, 1900

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Genus Sminthurides Börner, 1900

  • Sminthurides Börner, C. 1900. Vorläufige Mittheilung zur Systematik der Sminthuridae Tullb., insbesondere des Genus Sminthurus Latr. Zoologischer Anzeiger 23: 609-618 [616] [proposed as a subgenus or section of Sminthurus Latreille, 1802].
    Type species:
     Sminthurus aquaticus Bourlet, 1842 by subsequent designation, see Börner, C. 1906. Das System der Collembolen nebst Beschreibung neuer Collembolen des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 23: 147-188
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74.
  • Prosminthurus Willem, V. 1900. Recherches sur les Collemboles et les Thysanoures. Mémoires Couronnés et Mémoires des Savants Etrangers. Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles 58: 1-144 [55].
    Type species:
     Sminthurus aquaticus Bourlet, 1842 by monotypy.
  • Spinosella Palissa, A. 1961. Sminthurides (Spinosella) dentospinalis n. subgen. n. sp. (Collembola). Beiträge zur Entomologie (Berlin) 11: 354-356 [356] [proposed as a subgenus of Sminthurides Börner, 1900; junior homonym of Spinosella Vosmaer, 1885].
    Type species:
     Sminthurides (Spinosella) dentospinalis Palissa, 1961 by monotypy.
    Compiled from secondary source:
     Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74.
  • Spinosellina Palissa, A. 1964. Apterygota-Urinsekten. pp. 1-407 in Brohmer, P., Ehrmann, P. & Ulmer, G. (eds). Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. Band 4. Insekten. 1. Teil, Lfg. 1a Collembola Lubbock, 1870; Protura Silvestri, 1907; Diplura Börner, 1904; Thysanura Latreille, 1804. Leipzig : Quelle & Meyer [240] [nom. nov. for Spinosella Palissa, 1961].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Betsch, J.M. 1980. Éléments pour une monographie des Collemboles Symphypléones. (Hexapodes, Aptérygotes). Mémoires du Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris Zool. 116: 1-227 [128]
  • Ellis, W.N. & Bellinger, P.F. 1973. An annotated list of the generic names of Collembola (Insecta) and their type species. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 7: 1-74 [51]

 

Excluded Taxa

SMINTHURIDAE: Sminthurus violaceus Reuter, 1878, see Womersley, H. 1932. The Collembola-Symphypleona of Australia: A preliminary account. CSIRO Pamphlet No. 34. Melbourne : Government Printer 47 pp.; Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl; Betsch, J.M. & Massoud, Z. 1970. Études sur les insectes Collemboles. I. —Systématique, ultrastructure externe et écologie du genre Jeannenotia Stach, 1956 (Symphypléones, Sminthuridae n. comb.). Description de deux Collemboles nouveaux (Proisotoma et Sminthurides). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 7(2): 153-225 [as Sminthurides (Stenacidia) violacea = Jeannenotia stachi (Jeannenot, 1955)].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; Eyre Peninsula.


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, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • South Australia: S Gulfs
    • Victoria: SE coastal
    • Western Australia: SW coastal

Distribution References

  • Betsch, J.M. 1980. Éléments pour une monographie des Collemboles Symphypléones. (Hexapodes, Aptérygotes). Mémoires du Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris Zool. 116: 1-227

General References

Greenslade, P. 1995. Report on invertebrates of the Marble Range region, Eyre Peninsula. South Australian Naturalist 69(3-4): 4-8 [10] (Distribution: Eyre Peninsula)

Greenslade, P. 2006. Invertebrates of Macquarie Island. Kingston, Hobart : The Australian Antarctic Division [105] (biology)