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Genus Xenylla Tullberg, 1869

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Genus Xenylla Tullberg, 1869

  • Xenylla Tullberg, T. 1869. Om skandinaviska Podurider af Under-familjen Lipurinae. Akademisk Afhandling. Upsala 1869: 1-21 [11].
    Type species:
     Xenylla maritima Tullberg, 1869 by subsequent designation, see MacGillivray, A.D. 1893. North American Thysanura, I–IV. Canadian Entomologist 25: 127-128, 313-318
    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.
  • Propexenylla Salmon, J.T. 1944. New genera, species and records of New Zealand Collembola, and a discussion of Entomobrya atrocincta Schött. Records of the Dominion Museum 1: 123-182 [125].
    Type species:
     Propexenylla atrata Salmon, 1944 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

  • Gama Assalino, M.M. & Greenslade, Penelope 1981. Relationships between the distribution and phylogeny of Xenylla (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) species in Australia and New Zealand. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 18(2): 269-284 [269]

 

Excluded Taxa

HYPOGASTRURIDAE: Xenylla mucronata Axelson, 1903, see Gama Assalino, M.M. & Greenslade, Penelope 1981. Relationships between the distribution and phylogeny of Xenylla (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) species in Australia and New Zealand. Revue d'Ecologie et de Biologie du Sol 18(2): 269-284 [probably misidentified by Womersley (1939)].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan; Broken Hill.


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

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Central African Republic

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Norfolk Island
    • Northern Territory: N Gulf, W plateau
    • Queensland: Bulloo River basin, Murray-Darling basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
    • South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
    • Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal
  • New Caledonia
  • Solomon Islands

Neotropical Region

  • Mexico

Oriental Region

  • India
  • Thailand

Palaearctic Region

  • Japan

Distribution References

  • Carruthers, G.F., Walker, P.W., Greenslade, P., & Hooper, G.H.S. 2000. Impact of aerially applied fenitrothion on the collembolan fauna of arid grasslands of inland Australia. Australian Plague Locust Commission Research Reports. 51-60 pp. (Broken Hill)
  • Salmon, J.T. 1964. An index to the Collembola. Vols 1 & 2. Entomologiske Meddelelser 7: 1-144, 145-644

General References

Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl