Cheng Hsin-Ju, Janssens Frans, Chang Chih-Han
Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Evolutionary Ecology, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium.
Zookeys. 2022 Oct 4;1123:123-146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1123.90202. eCollection 2022.
From urban green space to pristine forest, Collembola is one of the most numerous and species-rich members of the soil fauna around the world. However, due to lack of taxonomic expertise and research, its diversity is poorly understood, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Collembola biodiversity studies in Taiwan have not seen much progress since 1981, when Hsin Chi reviewed 26 species belonging to 20 genera and eight families. Additionally, reports of new records in Taiwan in the last 40 years are scattered amongst several publications and not easily accessible to most end-users. Thus, a concise summary of related research is urgently needed. In this study, we updated the checklist of Collembola in Taiwan, based on published papers as well as images recorded in 2020-2022. We concluded that 58 species of Collembola belonging to 31 genera and 12 families have been reported in Taiwan, including 13 newly-recorded species. This species richness marks a 123% increase from the 1981 review. The results have been made publicly available in the Catalog of Life in Taiwan database and the images recorded have been used to update species information in collembola.org. We also characterised morphological and genetic variations in the globular springtail species Folsom, 1924 using DNA barcodes and highlighted potential research directions.
从城市绿地到原始森林，弹尾目昆虫是全球土壤动物中数量最多、物种最丰富的类群之一。然而，由于缺乏分类学专业知识和研究，人们对其多样性了解甚少，尤其是在热带和亚热带地区。自1981年辛奇（Hsin Chi）综述了20个属、8个科的26个物种以来，台湾地区的弹尾目生物多样性研究进展甚微。此外，过去40年台湾地区新记录的报道分散在多篇出版物中，大多数终端用户难以获取。因此，迫切需要对相关研究进行简要总结。在本研究中，我们基于已发表的论文以及2020 - 2022年记录的图像，更新了台湾地区弹尾目的名录。我们得出结论，台湾地区已报道了属于12个科、31个属的58种弹尾目昆虫，其中包括13个新记录物种。这一物种丰富度比1981年的综述增加了123%。研究结果已在台湾地区生命目录数据库中公开，记录的图像已用于更新弹尾目昆虫信息网站collembola.org上的物种信息。我们还利用DNA条形码对球状弹尾虫物种福尔索姆（Folsom，1924）的形态和遗传变异进行了表征，并突出了潜在的研究方向。
