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Ceratophysella gibbosa

  • 1. Laboratoire de Biosystématique et Écologie des Arthropodes, Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie, Université des Frères Mentouri Constantine 1, Route de Ain El-Bey, 25000 Constantine (Algeria)
  • 2. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, case postale 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) dehar. louis @ wanadoo. fr

Description

Ceratophysella gibbosa (Bagnall, 1940)

Achorutes gibbosus Bagnall, 1940: 165.

Ceratophysella gibbosa – Stach 1949: 138.

CITATION FROM ALGERIA OUTSIDE COLLO. — Baquero et al. (2009: 68).

DISTRIBUTION. — Holarctic region (Thibaud et al. 2004).

REMARK

Rare in our samples, only collected in Oued Z’hor. Specimens are identical to those of Europe for diagnostic characters, but Collo populations include a large proportion of strongly modified ecomorphic specimens, all immatures, which are not present in European populations we have seen so far: maxilla and mandible are degenerated and desclerified, chaetae of labium are shortened, eye size is reduced, unguiculus and mucro are shortened, uneven boss of Abd. V is stronger, and dorsal macrochaetae are distinctly capitated.

Notes

Published as part of Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Zoughailech, Abdelmalek, Brahim-Bounab, Hayette, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2018, Annotated checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Collo massif, northeastern Algeria, pp. 389-414 in Zoosystema 40 (16) on page 394, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a16, http://zenodo.org/record/4335964

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References

  • BAQUERO E., HAMRA- KROUA S. & JORDANA R. 2009. - A new species of Entomobrya from northern Algeria (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Entomological News 120: 65 - 75. https: // doi. org / 10.3157 / 021.120.0113
  • THIBAUD J. M., SCHULZ H. J. & DA GAMA ASSALINO M. M. 2004. - Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola, Volume 4. Hypogastruridae. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums 75: 1 - 287.