Checklist of the Collembola: History

http://www.collembola.org/doc/history.htm - Last updated on 2019.06.30 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
2019.06.30

Status

Status of the checklist

Group	# of Genera	# of Species	Species/Genus ratio

Actaletidae	2	12	6
Anurophorinae	46	690	15
Arrhopalitidae	3	155	51
Bessoniellinae	1	1	1
Bourletiellidae	38	242	6
Brachystomellidae	18	138	7
Caputanurininae	2	11	5
Coenaletidae	1	2	2
Collophoridae	1	9	9
Cyphoderinae	19	281	14
Dicyrtominae	5	103	20
Entomobryinae	17	608	35
Frieseinae	4	199	49
Gulgastruridae	1	1	1
Heteromurinae	13	142	10
Hypogastruridae	40	727	18
Isotogastruridae	1	10	10
Isotominae	44	453	10
Katiannidae	21	218	10
Lepidocyrtinae	14	692	49
Lophognathellinae	2	2	1
Mackenziellidae	1	2	2
Microfalculidae	1	1	1
Morulininae	2	21	10
Neanurinae	101	808	8
Neelidae	7	63	9
Nothobryinae	3	6	2
Odontellidae	13	136	10
Oncobryidae	1	1	1
Oncopoduridae	3	55	18
Onychiurinae	49	695	14
Orchesellinae	5	121	24
Pachyotominae	6	30	5
Pachytullbergiidae	3	6	2
Paleotullbergiidae	1	1	1
Paronellinae	18	277	15
Poduridae	1	2	2
Praentomobryidae	2	2	1
Proisotominae	18	271	15
Protentomobryidae	1	1	1
Pseudachorutinae	58	495	8
Ptenothricinae	3	104	34
Seiridae	2	235	117
Sminthurididae	12	157	13
Sminthurinae	18	192	10
Songhaicinae	5	13	2
Sphyrothecinae	9	61	6
Spinothecidae	3	8	2
Sturmiidae	1	3	3
Tetrodontophorinae	3	4	1
Tomoceridae	16	201	12
Tullbergiidae	34	232	6
Uchidanurinae	3	6	2
Willowsiinae	14	161	11

Collembola	710	9067	12

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.

2019.01.01-2019.01.31

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

on the status of forms of Orchesella sensu Stach 1930, 1960 by Arbea (2019), (2019), emails received from Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on the Collembola of Canada by Turnbull & Stebaeva (2019), publication shared by ZooKeys Editorial Office;
on a new Lepidocyrtus with dancing behaviour from Croatia by Mateos & Lukic (2019), publication shared by Dr Eduardo Mateos;
on new records of Mackenziella psocoides from Holland by Berg, van Langevelde, Wynhoff & van Bezouw (2018), publication shared by Dr Matty Berg;
on new Collembola from Japan by Yosii (1970), publication shared by Adolf Suttrop;
on new Tomocerinae from the USA by Mills (1949), publication shared by Dr Anatoly Babenko;
on new Thysanures(sic) from northern Africa by Lucas (1846);
on a review of the work of Nicolet on the Thysanoures(sic) by Lucas (1846).

2019.02.01-2019.02.28

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

on a new Brasilimeria from Brazil by Zeppelini, Queiroz, Lopes & Mendonça-Junior (2019),
on a new Archisotoma from Brazil by de Lima, Zeppelini & de Mendonça (2019), publications shared by Dr Douglas Zeppelini;
on a new cave Coecobrya from Thailand by Jantarit, Satasook & Deharveng (2019), publication shared by Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on the correct spelling of Orchesella mauritanica Lucas 1846 by Arbea (2019), email received from Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on a revision of Trogolaphysa from Africa by Nguyen & Soto-Adames (2018);
on a checklist of the Podurida(sic) by Kolenati (1858),
on Podurides(sic) from Algeria by Lucas (1849), publications shared by Dr Javier I. Arbea.

The key to the species of Brasilimeria has been provided by Zeppelini, Queiroz, Lopes & Mendonça-Junior (2019).
The key to the species of Archisotoma has been provided by de Lima, Zeppelini & de Mendonça (2019).
The key to the troglomorphic species of Coecobrya from Thailand has been provided by Jantarit, Satasook & Deharveng (2019).
The key to the African species of Trogolaphysa has been provided by Nguyen & Soto-Adames (2018).

2019.03.01-2019.03.31

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

on a new Cosberella from Mexico by Palacios-Vargas & Castaño-Meneses (2019), publication received from Dr José G. Palacios-Vargas;
on the habitus of Desoria tigrina by Fjellberg (2019), email received from Dr Arne Fjellberg;
on the identification of Entomobrya specimens on habitus photographs from Australia by Greenslade (2019), email received from Dr Penny Greenslade;
on a new Ceratophysella from China by Weiner, Xie, Li & Sun (2019);
on Campylothorax from Costa Rica by Culik in Baquero (2018), email received from Dr Enrique Baquero;
on a new Narynia from China by Huang, Potapov & Gao (2010);
on the morphology of the juvenile stages of Mesaphorura macrochaeta by Luciañez Sanchez & Simon Benito (1988).

The key to the species of Ceratophysella from China has been provided by Weiner, Xie, Li & Sun (2019).
The key to the species of Cosberella has been provided by Palacios-Vargas & Castaño-Meneses (2019).

2019.04.01-2019.04.30

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

on a revision of Tyrannoseira from Brazil by Cipola, de Morais, Godeiro & Bellini (2019), publication shared by Dr Nikolas Gioia Cipola;
on new Temeritas from Brazil by da Silva Medeiros & Bellini (2019), publication shared by Dr Bruno Cavalcante Bellini;
on new Neanuridae from Brazil by da Rocha Neves, de Mendonça & Queiroz (2019), publication shared by Dr Javier Arbea;
on a new Scutisotoma from Brazil by de Mendonça & da Silveira (2019), publication shared by Dr Maria Cleide de Mendonça.

The key to the species of Tyrannoseira has been provided by Cipola, de Morais, Godeiro & Bellini (2019).

2019.05.01-2019.05.31

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

on a new genus of Pseudachorutinae with pseudocelli from Colombia by Palacios-Vargas (2019), publication shared by Dr José G. Palacios-Vargas;
on a new Xenylla from China by Jia & Skarzynski (2019), publication shared by Dr Dariusz Skarzynski;
on a checklist of Collembola from Canada and Alaska by Babenko, Stebaeva & Turnbull (2019);
on a checklist of Collembola from western Iran by Kahrarian (2019), publication shared by Dr Javier Arbea;
on the authority of Onychiuridae by Vargovitsh (2019), emails received from Dr Robert Vargovitsh;
on a revision of the taxonomic system of the Collembola by Börner (1913);
on new Sminthuridae from the UK by Lubbock (1862),
on new Sminthuridae and Poduridae from the UK by Lubbock (1862), publications shared by Dr Robert Vargovitsh.

The key to the species of Xenylla from Asia has been provided by Jia & Skarzynski (2019).

2019.06.01-2019.06.30

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

on a new Nothobrya from Brazil by Nunes & Bellini (2019), publication shared by Dr Bruno Cavalcante Bellini;
on a new extreme troglomorph Onychiurinae from the west Caucasus by Vargovitsh (2019), publication shared by Dr Robert S. Vargovitsh.

The key to the species of Nothobryinae has been provided by Nunes & Bellini (2019).
The key to the species of Capbrya has been provided by Nunes & Bellini (2019).
The key to the species of Nothobrya has been provided by Nunes & Bellini (2019).