- Title
- Evidence for the likely extinction of an endemic south Australian springtail, 'Temeritas regalis' (Symphypleona: Sminthuridae)
- Creator
- Greenslade, Penelope
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/182933
- Identifier
- vital:16201
- Identifier
- ISBN:0038-2965
- Abstract
- 'Temeritas regalis' (Womersley, 1939) was formerly common in the Mt Lofty Ranges extending from as far north as Alligator Gorge/Mt Remarkable/Wirrabara in the Southern Flinders to Myponga, 60 km south of Adelaide. The species is a South Australian endemic and belongs to a pantropical wide genus. It was collected several times in the 1930's and fourteen times in the 1970's but it has not been seen since 1978. In spite of collecting efforts from its typical habitat in the Mt Lofty Ranges and Southern Flinders Ranges and at Mt Bold on 21 occasions in the last 20 years, no further specimens have been found. It appears that populations have shrunk in size or may have disappeared altogether since the 1980s due to a number of factors mainly: climate change, drought, habitat alteration and/or expansion of invasive plants, invertebrates and 'Phytophthora'. Consequently, it is suggested that the apparent population decrease and possible local extinctions are real and, as a result, this species complies with the IUCN criteria A1 and B, and should be listed as endangered under the South Australian legislation.
- Relation
- South Australian naturalist Vol. 93, no. 2 (2019), p. 103-110
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ Field Naturalists' Society of South Australia
- Subject
- 31 Biological Sciences; 41 Environmental Sciences; Botanical specimens; Classification; Collection and preservation; Collembola; Habitat (Ecology); Insects; Type specimens
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