Checklist of the Collembola: History

http://www.collembola.org/doc/history.htm - Last updated on 2021.01.31 by Frans Janssens

Checklist of the Collembola: History

Preface

This checklist has been prepared by Frans Janssens, member of the Royal Entomological Society of Antwerp, Belgium. The purpose of this check list is to resolve synonomy related problems. Typical example: given a taxon name, verify whether or not it is currently valid and if not what is then its currently valid name.

This list is updated regularly. Unfortunately, it still contains a lot of mistakes. :-(
Typical errors are a) duplication of the same species name in several genera, b) duplication of taxa at different rank (e.g., once listed at species rank and once more at subspecies rank), c) synonyms listed as valid taxa, c) incorrect spelling of the name of a taxon or author, d) incorrect publication date, e) incorrect revision authority.
Your comments, flames, remarks, suggestions, etc are welcome at Frans Janssens

Frans Janssens
2021.01.31

Status

Status of the checklist

Group	# of Genera	# of Species	Species/Genus ratio

Actaletidae	2	12	6
Anurophorinae	43	700	16
Arrhopalitidae	3	157	52
Bessoniellinae	1	1	1
Bourletiellidae	38	239	6
Brachystomellidae	18	142	7
Caputanurininae	2	11	5
Coenaletidae	1	2	2
Collophoridae	1	9	9
Dicyrtominae	5	108	21
Entomobryinae	13	639	49
Frieseinae	4	205	51
Gulgastruridae	1	1	1
Heteromurinae	12	145	12
Hypogastruridae	40	749	18
Isotogastruridae	1	10	10
Isotominae	43	450	10
Katiannidae	7	28	4
Lepidocyrtinae	10	695	69
Lophognathellinae	2	2	1
Mackenziellidae	1	2	2
Microfalculidae	1	1	1
Morulininae	2	21	10
Neanurinae	106	830	7
Neelidae	7	64	9
Nothobryinae	3	9	3
Odontellidae	13	141	10
Oncobryidae	1	1	1
Oncopoduridae	3	55	18
Onychiurinae	49	718	14
Orchesellinae	7	128	18
Pachyotominae	6	32	5
Pachytullbergiidae	3	6	2
Paleotullbergiidae	1	1	1
Paronellinae	20	191	9
Poduridae	1	2	2
Praentomobryidae	2	2	1
Proisotominae	20	299	14
Protentomobryidae	1	1	1
Pseudachorutinae	46	471	10
Ptenothricinae	3	104	34
Salininae	17	279	16
Seirinae	3	249	83
Sminthurididae	12	158	13
Sminthurinae	19	186	9
Songhaicinae	5	13	2
Sphyrothecinae	9	57	6
Spinothecidae	3	8	2
Sturmiidae	1	3	3
Tetrodontophorinae	3	4	1
Tomoceridae	16	212	13
Troglopedetinae	4	132	33
Tullbergiidae	34	234	6
Uchidanurinae	3	6	2
Willowsiinae	17	181	10

Collembola	689	9106	13

Note that the species count is optimistic and includes problematic taxa such as unresolved homonyms, unresolved nomina nuda and undescribed species (e.g., 'sp.').

A high species/genus ratio might be an indication that it is about time to do a revision of the concerned group. Taken this into account, the following groups are candidate for revision:

Arrhopalitidae, currently being revised by Drs Douglas Zeppelini & Robert Vargovich;
Lepidocyrtinae; the revision of Lepidocyrtus s.l. of Yoshii & Yayuk (1989) has been only partly accepted up to subgenus level;
Seiridae.

History

The history of this check list has been organised on a yearly basis. This file contains the history of the current year. Previous years can be found here : 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020.

2020.01.01-2020.01.31

Added the new taxa and/or corrections of the publications and/or communications:

on new Entomobryomorpha from central Spain by Baquero, Jordana & Ortuño (2021) publication shared by Dr Enrique Baquero;
on a mitogenomic phylogeny of the Collembola by Cucini, Fanciulli, Frati, Convey, Nardi & Carapelli (2021),
on a new cave Isotomiella from Spain by Arbea & Prieto (2021), publications shared by Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on the community structure of canopy Collembola from Mexico by Palacios-Vargas, Castaño-Meneses & Valladares (2021),
on metabarcoding monitoring of soil Collembola in tropical rainforests by Basset & al. (2020), publications shared by Dr José G. Palacios-Vargas;
on Collembola as natural enemy of Bagrada Bugs in California by Pickett, Borkent, Hogg & Grettenberger (2020),
on an imaging technique to monitor predation of eggs of stink bugs in California (Collembola included) by Pickett, Borkent, Viola & Lightle (2020), publications shared by Dr Christopher J. Borkent;
on new Friesea from Antarctica by Carapelli, Greenslade, Nardi, Leo, Convey, Frati & Fanciulli (2020);
on new Hypogastruridae from North East Russia by Babenko, Efeykin & Bizin (2020);
on Tetrodontophora bielanensis from Bulgaria by Mitov (2018);
on new [but misidentified] records of Collembola from Bangladesh by Islam, Alim & Hossain (2014);
on new species of the Proisotoma-complex from the USA, Vermont by Soto-Adames & Giordano (2011);
on acid tolerant Collembola from the Belgian Ardennes by Gillet & Ponge (2004), publication shared by James McCulloch and Dr Jean-Françe;ois Ponge;
on a new Psyllaphorura from North Korea by Weiner & Najt (2000);
on new Collembola from Europe by Gisin (1963);
on a new variant of Triacanthella proxima from France by Rapoport (1961);
on new records of Collembola from Argentina by Rapoport (1959);
on Tetrodontophora gigas from the Alps by Bertkau (1884);
on a review of literature on Thysanura by Elditt (1854).

The key to the species of Psyllaphorura has been provided by Weiner & Najt (2000).