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Eosentomon tokiokai Imadate

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Eosentomon tokiokai Imadaté

Fig. 53

Eosentomon tokiokai Imadaté, 1964a: 51, figs. 15–16; Imadaté, 1974b: 288, figs. 149–150.

Specimens examined. Specimen deposited in NSMT: 1 female from type locality, Shirahama, Wakayama Prefecture, VII-1974, H. Takeda leg. (Imadaté’s Proturan Collection No. 3150a 14). One female, Mandabaru, Yonaguni Island, Okinawa Prefecture, 24°27'26"N, 122°58'34"E, 100 m elevation, litter of evergreen broad-leaved forest, 21- V-2000, M. Mizushima leg.

Other specimens recorded. This species is collected in many localities in the west of Kanto district, hence those records are omitted.

Additions to description. On head, setae aa, pa and m4 present, sensilla as and ps present (Fig. 53A); seta sp 1.4–1.5 times longer than p; sensilla pp rudimentary. Labral setae present. Seta rs inflated, shorter than sr (Fig. 53B). On maxillary palpus (Fig. 53C) sensillum md longer than ml. On galea (Fig. 53D) digit O slightly longer than M and I. Mandible with two teeth (Fig. 53E). On hind tarsus (Fig. 53F) D2 and D4 spine-like; D4 more slender than D5. Tracheal camerae distinctly distally contracted (Fig. 53G). Central lobe constricted in middle (Fig. 53H). Laterostigmata II–IV distinct, without inner structure. On abdominal tergite VIII (Fig. 53) P1a' simple without basal dilatation and anterior to P2; P2a linear.

Distribution. Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Tobishima, Sado, Yakushima, Okinawa, Iriomote, Yonaguni, Izu–Ohshima, Miyakejima and Hachijojima Islands).

Notes

Published as part of Nakamura, Osami, 2010, Taxonomic revision of the family Eosentomidae (Hexapoda: Protura) from Japan 2701, pp. 1-109 in Zootaxa 2701 on pages 96-97

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Biodiversity

Collection code
NSMT
Event date
2000-05-21
Verbatim event date
2000-05-21
Scientific name authorship
Imadate
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Protura
Family
Eosentomidae
Genus
Eosentomon
Species
tokiokai
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Imadate, G. (1964 a) Taxonomic arrangement of Japanese Protura (I). Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, 7, 37 - 81.
  • Imadate, G. (1974 b) Fauna Japonica. Protura (Insecta). Keigaku Publishing Company, Ltd., Tokyo, 351 pp.