Collembola fauna of the South Shetland islands revisited

• Main Author: Greenslade, Penelope
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: British Antarctic Survey 2015
• Subjects: King George Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; antarcticus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66144

A review of the collembolan fauna of the South Shetland Islands is presented. Cryptopygus nanjiensis Yue & Tamura is synonymized with C. antarcticus Willem. A record of Tullbergia mediantarctica Wise from King George Island is considered a misidentification of Tullbergia mixta Wahlgren and Tillieria penai Weiner & Najt, described from the same island, is synonymized with T. mixta. The current fauna stands at eleven species, of which at least three are introduced. A checklist of Collembola currently considered to occur in the South Shetland Islands is supplied with distributional data.