Redescription of the Antarctic springtail Desoria klovstadi using morphological and molecular evidence

• Main Authors: Stevens, Mark I, Fjellberg, Arne, Greenslade, Penelope, Hogg, Ian, Sunnucks, Paul James
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Keywords: insect; molecular ecology; morphology; new genus; taxonomy; Antarctica; Coulman Island; East Antarctica; Foyn Island; Possession Island [Possession Islands]; Possession Islands; Ross Sea; Southern Ocean; Victoria Land; Collembola; Desoria; Desoria klovsta; Antarctic; Foyn; Possession Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Springtail; Polar Biology; Springtail
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/23798

Isotoma klovstadi Carpenter, 1902 was one of the first Collembola described from the Antarctic continent. It was first collected in November 1899 during the British Antarctic Expedition on the north coast of Victoria Land in the Ross Sea region. It is now known to occur in an extensive area of north...