Checklist of the Collembola: History

http://www.collembola.org/doc/history.htm - Last updated on 2020.03.31 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
2020.03.31

Status

Status of the checklist

Group	# of Genera	# of Species	Species/Genus ratio

Actaletidae	2	12	6
Anurophorinae	45	696	15
Arrhopalitidae	3	156	52
Bessoniellinae	1	1	1
Bourletiellidae	38	243	6
Brachystomellidae	18	138	7
Caputanurininae	2	11	5
Coenaletidae	1	2	2
Collophoridae	1	9	9
Dicyrtominae	5	104	20
Entomobryinae	14	603	43
Frieseinae	4	201	50
Gulgastruridae	1	1	1
Heteromurinae	13	142	10
Hypogastruridae	40	737	18
Isotogastruridae	1	10	10
Isotominae	44	456	10
Katiannidae	21	216	10
Lepidocyrtinae	11	699	63
Lophognathellinae	2	2	1
Mackenziellidae	1	2	2
Microfalculidae	1	1	1
Morulininae	2	21	10
Neanurinae	101	809	8
Neelidae	7	63	9
Nothobryinae	3	6	2
Odontellidae	13	137	10
Oncobryidae	1	1	1
Oncopoduridae	3	55	18
Onychiurinae	49	701	14
Orchesellinae	5	122	24
Pachyotominae	6	30	5
Pachytullbergiidae	3	6	2
Paleotullbergiidae	1	1	1
Paronellinae	24	318	13
Poduridae	1	2	2
Praentomobryidae	2	2	1
Proisotominae	18	271	15
Protentomobryidae	1	1	1
Pseudachorutinae	58	498	8
Ptenothricinae	3	104	34
Salininae	17	279	16
Seirinae	3	236	78
Sminthurididae	12	157	13
Sminthurinae	19	195	10
Songhaicinae	5	13	2
Sphyrothecinae	9	61	6
Spinothecidae	3	8	2
Sturmiidae	1	3	3
Tetrodontophorinae	3	4	1
Tomoceridae	16	202	12
Tullbergiidae	34	232	6
Uchidanurinae	3	6	2
Willowsiinae	17	176	10

Collembola	712	9162	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.

2020.01.01-2020.01.31

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

on a new cave Deuteraphorura from Slovakia by Parimuchová, Zurovcová, Papác, & Kovác (2020), publication shared by Dr Robert Vargovitch;
on a revision of Seirinae by Godeiro, Pacheco, Liu, Cipola, Berbel-Filho, Zhang, Gilbert & Bellini (2020), publication shared by Dr Bruno C. Bellini;
on a new Friesea from China by Bu, Palacios-Vargas & Arango (2019),
on the first littoral Pogonognathellus from Far East Russia by Kuprin & Potapov (2019), publications shared by Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on the anatomy of Mesaphorura sylvatica from Russia by Panina, Potapov & Polilov (2019), publication shared by Dr Nikolas Gioia Cipola;
on Friesea afurcata records from Iran by Khanahmadi, Shayanmehr & Bahmanyar (2018);
on a new Lepidocyrtus from Hungary by Mateos & Winkler (2018);
on new records of Willemia and Axenyllodes from Iran by Kahrarian (2014);
on new records of Collembola from Crete by Schulz & Burkhardt (2012);
on the biology of Cryptopygus antarcticus from Antarctica by Schaller & Kopeszki (1991);
on forest soil inhabiting Collembola from Austria by Haybach (1959);
on new cave Collembola from France by Denis (1936), publication shared by Dr Enrique Baquero.

The key to the species of Friesea with 2+2 ocelli has been provided by Bu, Palacios-Vargas & Arango (2019).
The key to the European species of Lepidocytus with dorsal trunk macrochaetae formula 00/0101+2 has been provided by Mateos & Winkler (2018).

2020.02.01-2020.02.29

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

on new Poduromorpha from Spain by Jordana, Baquero, Ledesma, Sendra & Ortuño (2020), publication shared by Dr Enrique Baquero;
on a new sexually dimorph genus and 2 new species of Sminthurinae from Brazil by Zeppelini, Brito, Zampaulo & de Lima (2020), publication shared by Drs Douglas Zeppelini and Estevam C.A. de Lima;
on the mitochondrial genome of Metisotoma macnamarai from northeast China by Xie, Yao, Potapov, Dong, Wu, Scheu & Sun (2020), publication shared by Dr Javier I. Arbea;
on new Entomobrya from Brazil by da Cunha Santos, dos Santos-Costa, Siqueira, Godeiro & Bellini (2020), publication shared by Dr Bruno Cavalcante Bellini;
on a new Acherontides from Brazil by de Lima, Stievano & Zeppelini (2019), publication shared by Dr Estevam C. Araujo de Lima;
on new cave Collembola from Brazil by Brito, de Lima & Zeppelini (2019);
on a new Axenyllodes from the Grande Comore Island by Thibaud (2011), publication shared by Dr Nikolas G. Cipola;
on a revision of the Neanurinae by Deharveng (1983), publication shared by Dr Enrique Baquero Martin;
on the regression of the eyes of Collembola by Thibaud & Massoud (1973), publication shared by Dr José G. Palacios-Vargas;
on Collembola from Madagascar by Denis (1929), publication shared by Dr Enrique Baquero Martin.

The key to the species of Acherontides has been provided by de Lima, Stievano & Zeppelini (2019).

2020.03.01-2020.03.31

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

on new Semicerura from Asia by Potapov, Xie, Kuprin & Sun (2020), publication shared by Dr Mikhail Potapov;
on new eyeless cave Pseudosinella from Brazil by Cipola, Oliveira, Bellini, Ferreira, Lima, Brito, Stievano, Souza & Zeppelini (2020), publication shared by Drs Nikolas G. Cipola and Douglas Zeppelini;
on new Folsomia from Japan and the Asiatic part of Russia by Potapov, Hasegawa, Kuznetsova, Babenko & Kuprin (2018);
on Akabosia from Japan and Yossia from India by Mitra (1977),
on Collembola from Japan and Taiwan by Yosii (1965), publications shared by Dr Daniel Winkler;
on a revision of Isotomidae by Bagnall (1949), publication shared by Dr Mikhail Potapov.

The key to the eyeless species of Pseudosinella from Brazil has been provided by Cipola, Oliveira, Bellini, Ferreira, Lima, Brito, Stievano, Souza & Zeppelini (2020).
The key to the species of the Folsomia inoculata-group has been provided by Potapov, Hasegawa, Kuznetsova, Babenko & Kuprin (2018).