Published December 21, 2022 | Version v1
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Mesogastrura Bonet 1930

  • 1. Industrial Insect and Sericulture Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Wanju, 55365, Republic of Korea cgd 1123 @ korea. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7281 - 0227
  • 2. Division of Ecological Application, National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, 33657, Republic of Korea
  • 3. Department of Biology Education and Institute of Science Education, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju, 54896, Republic of Korea. pkhsyst @ jbnu. ac. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6697 - 8819

Description

Genus Mesogastrura Bonet, 1930

Type species. Hypogastrura (Mesogastrura) carpetana Bonet, 1930

Type locality. Cueva del Reguerillo, Patones, Municipality of Torrelaguna, Madrid, Spain.

Diagnosis. Body color mostly white. Head with mostly less than 5 + 5 eyes. AIIIO with 2 long guards and 2 short sensilla. PAO of simple form with 4 or rarely 5 lobes. Tibiotarsi with 2 or more knobbed tenent hairs. Empodium reduced, chaeta-like shape. Furca well developed, mucro spear head-shaped. Anal spines absent (Thibaud et al. 2004).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Europe, South Africa, Equador, Japan and South Korea)

Notes

Published as part of Chang, Gyu-Dong, Kim, Sun-Sook & Park, Kyung-Hwa, 2022, One new species and one new record for the genus Mesogastrura (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from Korean caves, with DNA barcodes, pp. 325-342 in Zootaxa 5222 (4) on page 329, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5222.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7466656

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Bonet
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Poduromorpha
Family
Hypogastruridae
Genus
Mesogastrura
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Mesogastrura Bonet, 1930 sec. Chang, Kim & Park, 2022

References

  • Bonet, F. (1930) Remarques sur les Hypogastruriens cavernicoles avec descriptions d'especes nouvelles (Collembola). Revista espanTola de entomologiia, 6 (2), 113 - 139.
  • Thibaud, J. M., Schulz, H. - J. & Da Gama Assalino, M. M. (2004) S ynopses on Palaearctic Collembola, Volume 4. Hypogastruridae. Stalltliches Museum f ΒΈ r Naturkunde Gorlitz, Gorlitz, 288 pp.