Greenslade Penelope, Jordana Rafael
Environmental Management, School of Science, Information Technology and Engineering, Federation University, Mt Helen, Ballarat, Victoria 3353, Australia School of Biology, Australian National University, Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000.; Email:
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, 31008 Pamplona, Spain. E-mail:; Email:
Zootaxa. 2014 Oct 13;3872(5):561-76. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.5.7.
A new species of the Australian endemic genus Australotomurus Stach, 1947 A. morbidus sp. nov., is described from four urban remnants in Perth. Australotomurus morbidus sp. nov. is the first species in the genus found to possess male secondary sexual characters on antennal segment III as well as I. The males of all other described species in the genus occurring in south-eastern Australia have secondary sexual characters on antennal segments I and II rather than I and III. Typical habitats for Australotomurus species are long undisturbed native grasslands and heathland at low and high elevations. The new species extends the known distribution of the genus ca. 2,000 km west. Australotomurus morbidus sp. nov. is the only species in the genus currently vulnerable to extinction because of its restricted distribution to only four localities, all of which are subject to considerable human disturbance. This species was listed as critically endangered when it was known (but not yet described) from only one locality but was delisted a few years later when three other locations for the species were found. The history and records of A. morbidus sp. nov. suggest that listing species using current Western Australian legislation does not necessarily protect vulnerable species. The new species is described here and new records for some other Australian species of Orchesellinae provided, including the first Australian record of Heteromurus major (Moniez, 1889).
1947年澳大利亚特有属澳毛跳虫属（Australotomurus Stach）的一个新物种——病态澳毛跳虫（Australotomurus morbidus sp. nov.），是从珀斯的四处城市遗迹中发现并描述的。病态澳毛跳虫是该属中首个被发现触角第三节以及第一节具有雄性第二性征的物种。该属中分布于澳大利亚东南部的所有其他已描述物种的雄性，其第二性征位于触角第一节和第二节，而非第一节和第三节。澳毛跳虫属物种的典型栖息地是海拔高低不同、长期未受干扰的原生草原和石南荒原。这个新物种使该属已知分布范围向西扩展了约2000公里。病态澳毛跳虫是该属目前唯一因分布范围仅限于四个地点且均遭受相当程度人类干扰而濒临灭绝的物种。该物种在仅从一个地点被发现（但尚未描述）时被列为极度濒危物种，但几年后在发现了该物种的其他三个地点后被除名。病态澳毛跳虫的历史和记录表明，依据西澳大利亚现行立法对物种进行列名并不一定能保护濒危物种。本文描述了这个新物种，并提供了一些其他澳大利亚奥弹尾亚科物种的新记录，包括大异跳虫（Heteromurus major (Moniez, 1889)）在澳大利亚的首次记录。
