Terrestrial arthropods of Bouvetøya

Steueacarus euansi (Hunter) (Acari, Mesostigmata) and Frieseu tilbrooki Wise (Collembola) are reported for the first time from Bouvet o ya (54°25’S, 3°21’E). At present a total of four free-living species of Acari and three species of Collembola are known from this isolated island.

[1]  J. Wallwork.  ZOOGEOGRAPHY OF SOME TERRESTRIAL MICRO‐ARTHROPODA IN ANTARCTICA , 1973 .

[2]  P. Tilbrook.  The terrestrial invertebrate fauna of the Maritime Antarctic , 1967, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences.