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Drepanura

Description

Key to the species of Drepanura from Australia

1 Abd. III with 2 medially on each side (a2, m)..................................................... liuae sp. nov.

- Abd. III with 1 medially on each side (m3)................................................................ 2

2 Abd. II with more than 10 macrochaetae on each side.......................................... polychaeta sp. nov.

- Abd. II with 3−4 central macrochaetae on each side......................................................... 3

3 Abd. I with 9−10 macrochaetae on each side................................................................ 4

- Abd. I with 3−6 macrochaetae on each side................................................................. 5

4 Body with five longitudinal stripes............................................... cinquilineata Womersley, 1934

- Body without five longitudinal stripes............................................... albocoerulea (Schött, 1917)

5 Abd. I with 6 macrochaetae on each side, whole body with blue pigment....................... cobaltina (Schött, 1917)

- Abd. I with 3−4 macrochaetae on each side, body not entirely pigmented blue.................................... 6

6 Abd. IV without cross band......................................................... citricola Womersley, 1934

- Abd. IV with 2 cross bands...................................................... coeruleopicta (Schött, 1917)

Notes

Published as part of Ma, Yitong, Chun, Zhao & Greenslade, Penelope, 2015, The genus Drepanura (Collembola: Entomobryidae) in Australia: descriptions of two new species and redescriptions of five known species, pp. 373-387 in Zootaxa 4058 (3) on pages 386-387, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/236271

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Biodiversity

Family
Entomobryidae
Genus
Drepanura
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Collembola
Phylum
Arthropoda
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Womersley, H. (1934) A preliminary account of the Collembola-Arthropleona of Australian. Part II. Superfamily Entomobryoidea. Proceedings of the Royal of Entomological Society of South Australia, 58, 86 - 138.
  • Schott, H. (1917) Results of Dr. E. Mjoberg's Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia, 1910 - 1913. No. 15, Collembola. Arkiv for Zoologi, 11 (8), 1 - 60.