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Yamatentomon kunnepchupi Imadate 1964

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Yamatentomon kunnepchupi Imadaté, 1964

Figs. 9, 10

Yamatentomon kunnepchupi Imadaté 1964: 283–286, figs. 138–144; Imadaté 1973: fig. 4; Imadaté 1974b: 105, 114–117, figs. 46–47, 49; Rusek 1974: 270; Nakamura 2004: 23–24, figs. 29–31.

Materials examined. Holotype male (NSMT-AP 35), Otoineppu, Hokkaido, Japan, 20-X-1962, G. Imadaté leg.; one female (Imadaté’s Proturan Collection 0002A 5), Monomanai, Otoineppu-mura, Nakagawa-gun, Hokkaido, Japan, Abies sachaliensis and deciduous broad-leaved trees, 29-VII-1970, K. Niijima leg.; two males mounted on one slide (Imadaté’s Proturan Collection 1142 1), Furenai, Biratori-chô, Saru-gun, Hokkaido, Japan, Larix leptlepis, elev. 180 m, 20-VIII-1974, H. Tamura leg.

Diagnosis. Cephalic additional setae d6 absent; foretarsal sensillum b not reaching base of γ 4; tergite VII with five pairs of anterior setae, A4' absent; posterior accessory setae on thorax and abdomen all setiform, longer than one-third length of P1; accessory setae P3a absent on tergites II–V.

Supplementary notes on description. Cephalic setae l3, sd4, and sd5 setiform, lengths 7–9 μm, 10–11 μm and 12–14 μm, respectively (Fig. 9A, B); additional setae d6 absent (Figs. 9A, B); setae d7 and sd7 of subequal length, 18–19 μm; pores fp and cp present (Figs. 9A, B); sensilla on maxillary palpus similar in length, 8 μm; dorsal sensillum slender (Fig. 9C), ventral sensillum broadened proximally (Fig. 9D). Lengths of pronotal setae 1 and 2 20 and 14–15 μm, respectively. Foretarsal setae β1 and δ4 long, setiform; β1, 20–21 μm, about 1.7 times longer than δ1 and about half the length of β2, 38–41 μm; δ4 length 27–30 μm, about twice longer than δ1; δ1–3 and δ5 short, setiform, 12–16 μm long (Fig. 9E); pores present near sensilla c and t3 (Fig. 9F). Mesonotum with pores al and sl (Fig. 10A); metanotum with sl; prosternum without pores, mesosternum and metasternum with a group of three adjacent sc (Fig. 10B). Tergite I with pore spm; II–VI with spm and al; VII with spm, psl and al (Figs. 10F, G). Sternites I and IV with two adjacent spm (Fig. 10C); II–III and V with single spm (Fig. 10D); VI–VII with a pair of spsm and a group of adjacent three sam on connecting line (Fig. 10E, G).Abdominal segment XII with dorsal central pore and a pair of ventral anterolateral pores. Male squama genitalis with 6+6 setae (Fig. 9G).

Distribution. Japan (Hokkaido), Russian Far East (Khabarovsk).

Notes

Published as part of Nakamura, Osami, 2025, Review of Japanese species of the genus Yamatentomon (Protura, Acerentomidae), with supplementary notes on Y. brevisetum from North Korea, pp. 357-379 in Zootaxa 5693 (3) on pages 372-375, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5693.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/17323849

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Material sample ID
NSMT-AP 35
Event date
1962-10-20 , 1974-08-20
Verbatim event date
1962-10-20/1974-08-20 , 1974-08-20
Scientific name authorship
Imadate
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Protura
Family
Acerentomidae
Genus
Yamatentomon
Species
kunnepchupi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Yamatentomon kunnepchupi Imadate, 1964 sec. Nakamura, 2025

References

  • Imadate, G. (1964) Taxonomic arrangement of Japanese Protura (II). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 7 (3), 263-293.
  • Imadate, G. (1973) Habitat segregation between proturan species. Zeitschrift fur Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung, 11, 287-303. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0469.1973.tb00150.x
  • Imadate, G. (1974 b) Protura (Insecta). Fauna Japonica. Keigaku Publishing Co., Tokyo, 351 pp.
  • Rusek, J. (1974) Zur Taxonomie einiger Gattungen der Familie Acerentomidae (Insecta, Protura). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca, 71 (4), 260-281.
  • Nakamura, O. (2004) Protura from Khabarovsk, the Russian Far East. Edaphologia, 75, 17-35. https://doi.org/10.20695/edaphologia.75.0_17