Species Acrotelsa collaris (Fabricius, 1793)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Lepisma collaris Fabricius, J.C. 1793. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. Vol. 2 viii 519 pp. [64].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, West Indies, Caribbean (as Americae meridionalis Insulis).
• Lepisma niveofasciata Templeton, R. 1843. Memoir on the genus Cermatia, and some other exotic Annulosa. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3: 302-309 [304].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
• Lepisma mucronata Packard, A.S. 1873. Synopsis of the Thysanura of Essex County, Mass., with descriptions of a few extralimital forms. Annual Report of the Peabody Academy of Sciences 5: 23-51 [49].

  Type data:

   Holotype MCZ, Pulvon, W coast of Nicaragua.
• Lepisma cincta Oudemans, J.T. 1890. Apterygota des Indischen Archipels. pp. 73–92 in Weber, M. (ed.) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederländisch-Ostindien. Leiden. [80].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Buitenzorg, Java.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 43: 1-164 [107] (L. niveofasciata, L. cincta)
• Wygodzinsky, P. 1972. A review of the silverfish (Lepismatidae, Thysanura) of the United States and the Caribbean area. American Museum Novitates 2481: 1-26 [10] (L. mucronata)

 

Generic Combinations

• Acrotelsa collaris (Fabricius, 1793) Escherich, 1905. —
  Escherich, K. 1905. Das System der Lepismatiden. Zoologica (Stuttgart) 43: 1-164

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory

Extra Distribution Information

Pantropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Central Arnhem (CA), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB)

Ecological Descriptors

Omnivore, peridomestic.

Extra Ecological Information

Peridomestic in Australia, free-living under stones in semi-desert in the Middle East.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-May-2025	ZYGENTOMA (= Thysanura)	04-Sep-2024	MODIFIED
07-Aug-2012		07-Aug-2012	MOVED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)