Type­material. ­ Holotype female, Indonesia: Lombok, Sesaot, hutan Kemiri, alt. 300 m, litter, by hand, 18 / 11 / 1986, Y. R. Suhardjono leg. (sample N­04) ­ Paratypes: 26 specimens, ibid. Material deposited in the Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense collection (holotype, 19 paratypes) and in the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris (6 paratypes).

Dorsal head chaetotaxy

Post­cephalic chaetotaxy

Etymology. ­ The new species was collected from leaf litter beneath Aleurites moluccana, the candle nut tree, locally called “ kemiri ”.

Description

Body length: 1100 to 1800 µm. Body flattened, wide, with the sixth abdominal tergite weakly lobed (Fig. 7). Colour: white in alcohol. Eyes black, small, 3 + 3, subequal. Dorsointernal tubercles and those of the head weakly or not developed. Presence of an additional integument swelling devoid of chaetae between and behind De and DL of abd.IV (Fig. 6). Abd.VI not hidden by abd.V. Three kinds of ordinary dorsal chaetae: (i) and (ii), mesochaetae and microchaetae, thin and acuminate, on all parts of the body; (iii), macrochaetae, thin, straight, slightly rugose, very slightly sheathed, and blunt (Fig. 5), except the lateral ones which are acute apically. No plurichaetosis. S­chaetae thin, shorter than the closest macrochaetae; supernumerary S­chaeta only on lateral tubercle of abd.IV (Fig. 7 and Table I).

Head. S­chaetae of ant.IV medium­sized, moderately thick, bent, subequal; apical vesicle trilobed. Buccal cone rather short; labrum triangular­truncated at the apex, with 2 distal chaetae (Fig. 1 & 3); labium with 10 chaetae (Fig. 4). Maxilla styliform; mandible thin, tridentate with the apical tooth subdivided in three toothlets (Fig. 2). Chaetotaxy of head as in Fig. 7 and Table I.

Post­cephalic chaetotaxy as in Fig. 7 and Table I. Chaeta M present on tibiotarsus. Claw with a strong internal tooth.

Discussion. ­ The new species T. kemiri is the first Neanurinae cited from Lombok and the second Telobella of Indonesia. By the inclusion of the S­chaeta in the tubercle (De +DL) on abd.V, it is close to T. wayang.