Bourletiellidae
| Bourletiellidae | |
|---|---|
| Courtship of Deuterosminthurus pallipes | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Collembola |
| Order: | Symphypleona |
| Superfamily: | Sminthuroidea |
| Family: | Börner, 1913 |
Bourletiellidae is a family of primarily herbivorous[1] Springtails within the order Symphypleona. They are known from several parts of the globe,[2][3] and are known to engage in complex mating rituals.[4]
Distribution
Species have been recorded in areas such as Brazil,[2] Australia, and the Holarctic realm.[3] They live in forests and open areas such as grasslands, and on alive or dead vegetation.[2][3]
Reproduction and Development
Male individuals of this family will search for females upon leaves, where they will then engage in a complex mating dance.[4] The mating dance begins with a male attaching to a female with a special appendage formed from a modified antennae, the females will then carry the smaller males.[5] This dance culminates with the female individual accepting a spermatophore from the male. In some cases, instead of accepting the spermatophore for reproductive purposes, the female will consume it.[4]
During early development, Bourletiellidae undergo postzygotic sex determination where two sex chromosomes are deleted for the development of males. This form of sex determination leads to lopsided sex ratios where colonies will have more females than males.[6]
Etymology
The family was named by Börner (1913),[7] With the name being in reference to the springtail researcher Abbé C. Bourlet[8]
Taxonomy
Bourletiellidae contains the following genera:[9]
- Adisianus
- Arlesminthurus
- Bourletiella
- Bovicornia
- Cassagnaudiella
- Cyprania
- Deuterosminthurus
- Fasciosminthurus
- Heterosminthurus
- Prorastriopes
- Pseudobourletiella
- Rastriopes
- Sanaaiella
- Stenognathriopes
References
- ^ Seeger, Jana; Filser, Juliane (2008-09-01). "Bottom-up down from the top: Honeydew as a carbon source for soil organisms". European Journal of Soil Biology. Special Section of the 7th International Apterygota Seminar. 44 (5): 483–490. doi:10.1016/j.ejsobi.2008.07.008. ISSN 1164-5563.
- ^ a b c Abrantes, Eduardo A.; Bellini, Bruno C.; Bernardo, Alessandra N.; Fernandes, Liliane H.; Mendonça, Maria C.; Oliveira, Elisiana P.; Queiroz, Gabriel C.; Sautter, Klaus D.; Silveira, Tatiana C.; Zeppelini, Douglas (2010-03-04). "Synthesis of Brazilian Collembola: an update to the species list". Zootaxa. 2388 (1): 1–22. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2388.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334.
- ^ a b c Grujić, Nikola Z.; Winkler, Dániel; Daghighi, Elaheh (2023-12-30). "An annotated checklist of springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) from Vojvodina province, Republic of Serbia". Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics. 9 (4): 727–759. doi:10.61186/jibs.9.4.727.
- ^ a b c Kozlowski, Marek Wojciech; Aoxiang, Shi (2006-04-01). "Ritual behaviors associated with spermatophore transfer in Deuterosminthurus bicinctus (Collembola: Bourletiellidae)". Journal of Ethology. 24 (2): 103–109. doi:10.1007/s10164-005-0162-6. ISSN 1439-5444.
- ^ Cannings, R.A.; Scudder, G.G.E. (2006). Klinkenberg, Brian (ed.). "The Insect Families of British Columbia: The Springtail Families of British Columbia". E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Fauna of British Columbia. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
- ^ Dallai, R.; Fanciulli, Pietro Paolo; Carapelli, Antonio; Frati, Francesco (2001-04-01). "Aberrant spermatogenesis and sex determination in Bourletiellidae (Hexapoda, Collembola), and their evolutionary significance". Zoomorphology. 120 (4): 237–245. doi:10.1007/s004350100037. ISSN 1432-234X.
- ^ "Bourletiellidae Börner, 1913 | COL". www.catalogueoflife.org. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
- ^ "Taxonomy and wonder". A Chaos of Delight. Retrieved 2025-03-23.
- ^ "Family Bourletiellidae". iNaturalist. Retrieved 3 December 2024.
External links
- Media related to Bourletiellidae at Wikimedia Commons