Australotomurus Stach 1947

• Main Authors: Greenslade, Penelope, Jordana, Rafael
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2014
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Entognatha; Collembola; Entomobryidae; Australotomurus; Fuller; Polska; Seta; Fennoscandia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5689499; https://zenodo.org/record/5689499

Genus Australotomurus Stach, 1947 Australotomurus Stach 1947: 21. Type species: Isotomurus echidnus Womersley, 1934, by original designation. Diagnosis. Scales absent, postantennal organ present, ocelli 8 + 8 on pigmented eye spot, G and H normally reduced in size; only antennal segment I and rarely antennal segment II or III subdivided or III angled, secondary sexual characters present on antennae and occasionally anterior margin of head in male; tenent hair pointed, not clavate; mucro with 2 teeth, mucronal spine absent, manubrium with 2 + 2 ventral distal spines, dens without spines. Remarks . A fuller diagnosis and figures of characters are given in Mari Mutt and Greenslade (1985). These authors did not describe or figure spines distally on the anterior face of the manubrial thickening although Fjellberg (2007) noted they were present in all European Orchesellinae. These spines have now been observed in both males and females of Australian species. Australotomurus species are morphologically very similar and furnished with a dense covering of macro- and mesochaetae, which are highly variable in number and pattern within species; therefore, chaetotaxic characters are rarely useful to distinguish species in this genus (Szeptycki 1979; Mari Mutt and Greenslade 1985). The main species diagnostic characters are: male secondary sexual characters; colour pattern and dimensions; form of apical bulb on antennal segment IV and pin seta; ciliation of labial setae; number of teeth on the claw; and number of setae in the trochanteral organ, ventral tube and tenaculum. The terminology of the antennal segments used here slightly differs from that used by Mari Mutt and Greenslade (1985) in that homology with other Collembola taxa is maintained and subsegments are numbered as such (e.g., Antennal segment Ia, Antennal segment Ib) and given separate numbers. : Published as part of Greenslade, Penelope & Jordana, Rafael, 2014, Description and conservation status of a new species of Australotomurus (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Orchesellinae) from urban Perth remnant bushland, pp. 561-576 in Zootaxa 3872 (5) on page 564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/229660 : {"references": ["Stach, J. (1947) The Apterygotan Fauna of Poland in Relation to the World-Fauna of this Group of Insects. Family: Isotomidae. Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Acta monographica Musei Historiae Naturalis, Krakow, 488 pp.", "Womersley, H. (1934) A preliminary account of the Collembola -- Arthropleona of Australia. Part II. Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 58, 86 - 138.", "Mari Mutt, J. A. & Greenslade, P. (1985) A revision of the genus Australotomurus (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Orchesellinae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 33, 217 - 243. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1071 / ZO 9850217", "Fjellberg, A. (2007) The Collembola of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Part II: Entomobryomorpha and Symphypleona. Fauna Entomologia Scandinavica, 42, Brill, 264 pp.", "Szeptycki, A. (1979) Chaetotaxy of the Entomobryidae and its phylogenetical significance. Morpho-systematic studies on Collembola. IV. Polska Akademia Nauk, Zaklad Zoologii Systematycznej i Doswiadczalnej, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, Krakow, 219 pp."]}