Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi Cipola, Morais & Bellini, 2020, nom. nov.
Description
Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. Cipola & Bellini
Figs 2, 12, Tables 1 and 3
Seira (Lepidocyrtinus) annulicornis; Yosii 1959: 10, figs 5A–H, South Africa, Cape Town, Table Mountain (Fig. 2), not examined; Janion-Scheepers et al. 2015: 68, Africa South (catalog).
Diagnosis. Body pale white with violet pigments on Ant III–IV, Ant II and femur I–III distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 14 anterior, 7 median (m1ip absent, m4 and m4i present) and 11 posterior mac (p3 present); Th III–Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively (Fig. 12A); Abd IV with 17 central mac and 8 lateral mac (Fig. 12B); unguis a.t. present; unguiculus with all lamella acuminate and toothless (Fig. 12C); manubrial plate with 3 blunt mac; dens with 9–10 blunt mac apically nipple-like (Fig. 12D).
Etymology. It is named after Dr. Ryozo Yoshii (in memoriam), an important Collembola researcher.
Remarks. Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. resembles L. annulicornis in general morphology (see the remark sections of these species and Table 3).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Entomobryidae
- Genus
- Lepidocyrtinus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Entomobryomorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cipola & Morais & Bellini
- Species
- ryozoi
- Taxonomic status
- nom. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi Cipola, Morais & Bellini, 2020
References
- Yosii, R. (1959) Collembolan fauna of the Cape Province, with special reference to the genus Seira. Biological Results of the Japanese Antarct Research Expedition, 6, 1 - 24. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 176436
- Janion-Scheepers, C., Deharveng, L., Bedos, A. & Chown, S. L. (2015) Updated list of Collembola species currently recorded from South Africa. ZooKeys, 503, 55 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 503.8966