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Cryptonura Cassagnau 1979

Description

Key to the species of the genus Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 *

* The key is based mainly on Bellinger et al. (2012)

1. Tubercle Di on th. I with 1 chaeta........................................................................ 2

- Tubercle Di on th. I with 2 chaetae....................................................................... 5

2. Chaeta C on head present, mandible with 3 teeth, tubercle Di on abd. V with 3 chaetae.............................. 3

- Chaeta C on head absent, mandible with 6 teeth, tubercle Di on abd. V with 2 chaetae..................................................................................................... C. anthrenoidea (Ellis, 1976) (Greece)

3. Dorsal tubercles round, labral formula: 4/2, 4, group Vi of head with 5 chaetae, colour of body white............................................................................................. C. jubilaria Smolis, 2002 (Poland)

- Dorsal tubercles triangular, labral formula: 0/2, 2, group Vi of head with 6 chaetae, colour of body bluish-gray........... 4

4. Tubercles Di on th. II–III with 2 chaetae, labrum distally ogival, tubercle Dl on head with 5 chaetae..................................................................................................... C. persica sp. nov. (Iran)

- Tubercles Di on th. II–III with 3 chaetae, labrum non-ogival, tubercle Dl on head with 6 chaetae.. C. maxima sp. nov. (Iran)

5. Chaeta C on head absent, tubercles L on abd. II–III with 4 chaetae........ C. dirfysensis Cassagnau & Péja, 1979 (Greece)

- Chaeta C on head present, tubercles L on abd. II–III with other number of chaetae.................................. 6

6. Tubercle De on th. II with 4 chaetae, tubercles L on abd. II–III with 2 chaetae............ C. franzi (Stach, 1951) (Austria)

- Tubercle De on th. II with 3 chaetae, tubercles L on abd. II–III with 3 chaetae... C. kühnelti (Gisin, 1954) (Austria, Ukraine)

Notes

Published as part of Smolis, Adrian, Falahati, Asghar & Skarżyński, Dariusz, 2012, The genus Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae) in Iran, pp. 51-58 in Zootaxa 3530 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214290

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cassagnau
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Collembola
Family
Neanuridae
Genus
Cryptonura
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 sec. Smolis, Falahati & Skarżyński, 2012

References

  • Bellinger, P. F., Christiansen, K. A. & Janssens, F. (2012) Checklist of the Collembola of the world. Available from http: // www. collembola. org (last accessed in June 2012).
  • Ellis, W. N. (1976) Autumn fauna of Collembola from Central Crete. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 119 (8), 221 - 326.
  • Smolis, A. (2002) A new species of the genus Cryptonura Cassagnau, 1979 from Poland (Collembola: Neanuridae). Genus, 13 (3), 325 - 330.
  • Cassagnau, P. & Peja, N. (1979) Diagnoses preliminaries de quelques Neanuridae de Grece et d'Albanie. Biologia Gallo - Hellenica, 8, 205 - 222.
  • Stach, J. (1951) The Apterygotan fauna of Poland in relation to the world-fauna of this group of insects. Family: Bilobidae. Polska Akademia Umiejetnosci, Acta monographica Musei Historiae Naturalis, Krakow, 97 pp.
  • Gisin, H. (1954) Description de cinq especes inedites de Collemboles. Mitteilungen der Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, 27 (1), 49 - 52.