Australian Biological Resources Study

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Genus Tomocerus Nicolet, 1842

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Genus Tomocerus Nicolet, 1842

  • Tomocerus Nicolet, H. 1842. Recherches pour servir à l'histoire des Podurelles. Neue Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 6: 1-88 [31, 67] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology: 667, Opinion 239].
    Type species:
     Macrotoma minor Lubbock, 1862 by designation under Plenary Powers, see ICZN 1954. Opinion 239. Designation, under the Plenary Powers, of type species for the nominal genera Podura Linnaeus, 1758, and Tomocerus Nicolet, [1842] (Class Insecta, Order Collembola) in harmony with accustomed nomenclatorial usage. In, Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 4(29): 361-372

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Europe, Russia, North America.


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

Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Tasmania

Nearctic Region

Palaearctic Region

  • Iceland
  • Japan

General References

Christiansen, K. 1964. A revision of the Nearctic members of the genus Tomocerus (Collembola Entomobryidae). Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 1: 639-678

Massoud, Z. & Ellis, W.N. 1974. Considérations sur les genres Tomocerus et Pogonognathellus (Collembola, Insecta). Pedobiologia 14: 292-299 (extralimital synonomy)