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Issue: Vol. 4066 No. 1: 13 Jan. 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-01-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.1.6
Page range: 78–80
Abstract views: 53
PDF downloaded: 39

Synonymy of Katianna coeruleocephala Handschin, 1920 (Collembola: Katiannidae) with Bourletiella viridescens (Bourletiellidae)

Environmental Management, School of Applied and Biomedical Science, Faculty of Science, Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria 3353 Department of Biology, Australian National University, GPO Box, Australian Capital Territory 0200. South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000.
Collembola Katiannidae Bourletiellidae

Abstract

Katianna coeruleocephala was described by Handschin in 1920 from Poespo, Java. It was collected in December, 1896 by Dr. Zehntner with the collecting details given as rotten “Louv” (leaves?) from live orchard. Handschin (1920) labelled his figures of the species (p. 146) as Katianna coerulescephala but the first spelling of the species name (p. 145) has priority. Katianna coeruleocephala has never been recollected. The only mention of the species in the literature since 1920 has been by Suhardjono (1989) in a check list for Indonesia and Suhardjono (2012) who listed it as present on Java and provided the main characteristics of the genus Katianna Börner, 1923. She stated it was a “new” (translate as endemic?) species in Java with a preferred habitat in cold and damp litter but no comment was made on the taxonomic status of the Indonesian species.

 

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