Folsomotoma octooculata

• Main Authors: Fanciulli, Pietro Paolo, Leo, Chiara, Convey, Peter, Frati, Francesco, Carapelli, Antonio
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Entognatha; Collembola; Isotomidae; Folsomotoma; Folsomotoma octooculata; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Cuverville Island; Harry Island; Spert Island; Wiencke Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5984906; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C587AED567FF83D8D1FDEABAEA45CA

Folsomotoma octooculata (Willem, 1901) (FIgS. 1–4) Isotoma octooculata Willem, 1901 Parisotoma octooculata (Willem, 1901): Salmon 1949 Isotoma ( Folsomotoma ) octooculata Willem, 1901: Greenslade 1995 Folsomotoma octooculata (Willem, 1901): Greenslade 2010 Neotype designation. Folsomotoma octooculata WAS FIRST dEScRIbEd bY WILLEM (1901, 1902) bASEd ON SPEcIMENS FROM ThE GERLAchE STRAIT, ANTARcTIc PENINSULA (cOLLEcTINg SITES: HARRY ISLANd, DANcO COAST ANd CUVERVILLE ISLANd). IT IS PRObAbLE ThAT WILLEM’S ORIgINAL cOLLEcTION WAS dEPOSITEd AT GhENT UNIVERSITY, BELgIUM; NEVERThELESS, EFFORTS TO TRAcE IT FAILEd, ANd ThE TYPE MATERIAL PRObAbLY NO LONgER EXISTS. ThUS, FOLLOWINg ARTIcLE 75.3.4 OF ThE INTERNATIONAL COdE OF ZOOLOgIcAL NOMENcLATURE (INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON ZOOLOgIcAL NOMENcLATURE 1999), WE hERE dESIgNATE A FEMALE AS NEOTYPE, cOLLEcTEd FROM SPERT ISLANd, GERLAchE STRAIT, ANTARcTIc PENINSULA (63°51’S, 60°57’W). Additional material examined. FOUR FURThER SPEcIMENS (ThREE FEMALES; ONE MALE) FROM ThE SAME NEOTYPE LOcALITY. FURThER SPEcIMENS OF F. octooculata , INcLUdEd IN ThE ANALYSIS, WERE ObTAINEd FROM ThE FOLLOWINg LOcALITIES NEAR ThE GERLAchE STRAIT: FOUR FEMALES FROM WIENckE ISLANd (64°50’S, 63°23’W); TWO FEMALES FROM BERThELOT ISLANd (65°20’S; 64°9’W); SIX INdIVIdUALS (FOUR FEMALES; TWO MALES) FROM GANd ISLANd (64°24’S; 62°51’W). OThER SPEcIMENS FROM dIFFERENT SAMPLINg SITES ALONg ThE ANTARcTIc PENINSULA (ANd OFFShORE ISLANdS) WERE ALSO EXAMINEd: ONE FEMALE FROM POTTER COVE, KINg GEORgE I. (62°14’S, 58°42’W); FIVE FEMALES FROM RIP POINT, NELSON I. (62°15’S, 58°59’W); FOUR FEMALES FROM HARMONY POINT, NELSON I. (62°18’S, 59°14’W); ThREE FEMALES FROM COPPERMINE PENINSULA, RObERT I. (62°22’S, 59°42’W); FOUR INdIVIdUALS (TWO FEMALES; TWO MALES) FROM HANNAh POINT, LIVINgSTON I. (62°39’S, 60°36’W); ThREE FEMALES FROM DEVILS POINT, LIVINgSTON I. (62°40’S, 61°10’W); FOUR INdIVIdUALS (TWO FEMALES; TWO MALES) FROM HURd PENINSULA, LIVINgSTON I. (62°40’S, 60°21’W). ALL SLIdES ARE dEPOSITEd IN ThE COLLEMbOLA ...