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Lepidocyrtus Bourlet 1839

Creators

  • 1. Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia y Ciències Ambientals, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona. Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 - Barcelona, Spain. & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
  • 2. Department of Biology, Australian National University, GPO Box Australian Capital Territory, Australia. p. greenslade @ federation. edu. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2123 - 5306

Description

Key of the Australian species of genus Lepidocyrtus

1 Antennae, dorsal face of the manubrium and legs not scaled................................................... 2

- Antennae, dorsal face of the manubrium and leg coxae with scales............................ L. lignorum -group … 7

2 Ant.IV with apical bulb; 5+5 marginal ciliated chaetae along cephalic ventral groove; dorsal Abd.II m5 ciliated macrochaeta; dorsal Abd.IV B6 smooth microchaeta................................................................................. L. fimetarius Gisin, 1964 (in 1964a) (Europe: Albania, France, Germnay, Portugal, Spain, Sweden. Australia)

- Ant.IV without apical bulb; 3+3 marginal ciliated chaetae along cephalic ventral groove; dorsal Abd.II m5 smooth microchaeta; dorsal Abd.IV B6 thin ciliated macrochaeta............................................. L. praecisus -group … 3

3 Unguiculus truncate................................................................................... 4

- Unguiculus acuminate................................................................................. 5

4 Blue pigment from Th.II to Abd.III; dorsal Abd.IV F2 and F3 as a ciliated macrochaetae............................................................................................ L. nigrofasciatus Womersley, 1934 (Australia)

- Blue pigment from Th.II to Abd.V; dorsal Abd.IV F2 and F3 as a smooth microchaetae.................................................................................................... L. praecisus Schött, 1917 (Australia)

5 Body with blue pigment on thorax and abdomen; labial chaeta r as a smooth microchaeta...... L. nashi sp. nov. (Australia)

- Body without blue pigment; labial chaeta R as a short ciliated macrochaeeta...................................... 6

6 Dorsal cephalic chaeta M2 as a ciliated macrochaeta; dorsal Abd.IV F2 and F3 as ciliated macrochaetae........................................................................................... L. agricolus sp. nov. (Australia)

- Dorsal cephalic chaeta M2 as a smooth microchaeta; dorsal Abd.IV F2 and F3 as a smooth microchaetae....................................................................................... L. coorongensis sp. nov. (Australia)

7 Body unpigmented................................ L. lignorum (Fabricius, 1793) (Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece [with Crete and Dodecanese islands], Hungary, Ireland, Italy [with Sardinia and Sicily], Norway [with Faroe, Svalbard and Jan Mayen islands], Poland, Portugal Rep. of Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Spain [with Balearic islands], Switzerland, Netherlands, Ukraine. Australia)

- Body dark blue pigmented............................................................................... L. violaceus Lubbock, 1873 (Europe: Austria, Belgium, Britain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Rep. of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine. Australia)

Notes

Published as part of Mateos, Eduardo & Greenslade, Penelope, 2021, Towards understanding Lepidocyrtus Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Entomobryidae) II: new Australian species, pp. 365-387 in Zootaxa 4981 (2) on page 385, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4920977

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B85AC676F3474645FF603693FED8FA8A

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.4981.2.9 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/4920977 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/4463BE0EF3534651FFF73748FFDAFFBA (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/4BD9A224-FB20-4752-B489-1F8E50E1143D (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/B85AC676F3474645FF603693FED8FA8A (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/183228065 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/5904/taxon/B85AC676F3474645FF603693FED8FA8A.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Entomobryidae
Genus
Lepidocyrtus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Collembola
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Bourlet
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Lepidocyrtus Bourlet, 1839 sec. Mateos & Greenslade, 2021

References

  • Womersley, H. (1934) A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australia. Part II. - Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 58, 86 - 138.
  • Schott, H. (1917) Results of Dr. E. Mjobergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910 - 1913.15. Collembola. Arkiv For Zoologi, 118, 1 - 59. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 1497
  • Fabricius, J. C. (1793) Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta, Secundum Classes, ordines, genera, species adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Vol. 2. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, 519 pp.
  • Lubbock, J. (1873) Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura. Printed for the Ray Society, London, 276 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 11583