Species Sminthurinus tuberculatus Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1963

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sminthurinus tuberculatus Delamare-Deboutteville, C. & Massoud, Z. 1963. Collemboles Symphypléones. pp. 169–289 in, Biologie de l'Amérique Australe Paris : CNRS Vol. 2. [201].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHN, Province of Chubut, Lago Puelo, Patagonia, S America.

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Sminthurinus aureus aureus Lubbock, 1862 [misidentification, see Greenslade & Ireson (1986)]. —
  Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl. (misidentification)
• Sminthurinus niger igniceps Reuter, 1881 [misidentification, See Greenslade & Ireson (1986)]. —
  Womersley, H. 1939. Primitive Insects of South Australia. Silverfish, Springtails and their allies. Adelaide : Frank Trigg, Government Printer 322 pp. 1 pl.
• Sminthurinus aureus ochropus Reuter, 1891 [misidentification, see Greenslade (1994)]. —
  Greenslade, P. 1994. Collembola. pp. 19-138 in Houston, W.W.K. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Protura, Collembola, Diplura. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 22 188 pp. [131]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas: Australian Alps (AA), Ben Lomond (BEL), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Ecological Descriptors

Terrestrial.

General References

Greenslade, P. & Ireson, J.E. 1986. Collembola of the southern Australian culture steppe and urban environments: a review of their pest status and key to identification. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 25: 273-292 (key, ecology)

Ireson, J.E. 1993. Activity and pest status of surface-active Collembola in Tasmanian field crops and pastures. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 32: 155-167

King, K.L., Greenslade, P. & Hutchinson, K.J. 1985. Collembolan associations in natural versus improved pastures of the New England Tableland NSW: distribution of native and introduced species. Australian Journal of Ecology 10: 421-427 (ecology, as Sminthurinus sp. tuberculatus group Najt, incorrect authority)

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