A review of Salmon’s Folsomia types from New Zealand (Collembola)

ABSTRACT

Type specimens of six species of the genus Folsomia Willem, 1902 described by J. Salmon were examined. Folsomia pusilla Salmon, 1944 syn. nov. is synonymised with Mucrosomia caeca (Wahlgren, 1906). Synonymy of Folsomia lunata Salmon, 1943 with M. caeca is verified. Three species are transferred from the genus Folsomia to other genera, resulting in Mucrosomia novaezealandiae (Salmon, 1943) comb. nov., Cryptopygus miradentatus (Salmon, 1943) comb. nov. and Proisotoma sedecimoculata (Salmon, 1943) comb. nov. Folsomia parasitica Salmon, 1943 syn. nov. is synonymised with Folsomia candida Willem, 1902. Bagnallela is removed from the list of synonyms of the genus Folsomia. Proisotoma dubia (Deharveng, 1981) comb. nov. gets a new generic position.

KEYWORDS:

• Collembola
• springtails
• taxonomy

Acknowledgements

We thank Dr Phil Sirvid from the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington) for the loan of the specimens from the collection. Dr Hiroshi Takeda (Doshisha University, Japan) made the examination of specimens possible by providing his laboratory in Kyoto. The estimation of the number of the species described by J. Salmon was possible due to data made available by Frans Janssens (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

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Funding

The study was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RU) [Russia, research project 14-04-01140] for the first author.