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Multivesicula Rusek 1982

  • 1. Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai 200041, China & gaoy @ sstm. org. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0305 - 3696
  • 2. Shanghai Natural History Museum, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum, Shanghai 200041, China

Description

Genus Multivesicula Rusek, 1982

Type species: Multivesicula columbica Rusek, 1982.

Diagnosis. Body slender, habitus similar to that of the genus Mesaphorura, without pigment, antennal segment IV with 4 thickened sensilla, 2 subapical sensory rods, antennal segment III with two large sensory clubs, bent towards one another and two small sensory rods, postantennal organ with numerous (42–110) round vesicles arranged in 4–7 irregular rows, pseudocelli of type IV, abdominal segment VI with crescentic ridges on both sides.

Distribution. China, Canada, Siberia, USA.

Notes

Published as part of Gao, Yan & Bu, Yun, 2022, New species and records of Tullbergiidae (Collembola, Poduromorpha) from Xinjiang province, Northwest China, pp. 531-544 in Zootaxa 5092 (5) on page 532, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5092.5.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5896409

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Biodiversity

Collection code
IV, III, VI
Family
Tullbergiidae
Genus
Multivesicula
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Poduromorpha
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rusek
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Multivesicula Rusek, 1982 sec. Gao & Bu, 2022

References

  • Rusek, J. (1982) Multivesicula gen. n. from the subfamily Tullbergiinae (Collembola: Onychiuridae). Vestnik Ceskoslovenske spolecnosti Zoologicke, 46, 33 - 44.