Palmanura sernai Palacios-Vargas & Simón Benito, 2009

Arango, Angela, Palacios-Vargas, José G., Vázquez, Magdalena & Marín, Elida P., 2018, Revision of the genus Palmanura Cassagnau, 1983 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae: Sensillanurini), Zootaxa 4483 (1), pp. 128-154 : 143-145

Palmanura sernai Palacios-Vargas & Simón Benito, 2009

FIgS 30–32 , TAbS 11–12

Material studied. FOUR fEMALES ANd ONE jUvENILE ON fIvE SLIdES, COLOMBIA, SANTA ROSA dE TAPIAS, VALLE dE CAUcA, Ex. LITTER, 01.II.2017, LEg. E. P. MARíN, ANd ThE hOLOTyPE fEMALE , COLOMBIA, TOLIMA, ChAPARRAL, GRANjA CALIxTO IRIARTE. 02.IV.2002 LEg. M. R. PEñARANdA-PARAdA

Redescription. LENgTh (N = 4) 730 µM (RANgE 660 µM–788 µM). COLOR whITE IN ALcOhOL. GRANULATIONS STRONg, AbOUT ThE SIzE Of ONE EyE. TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. TwO kINdS Of bOdy SETAE, bARbULATE MAcROSETAE (BM) (39 µM) (32–42 µM), LONgER MIcROSETAE (M) (29 µM) (27–29 µM), bESIdES ThE SENSORIAL SETAE (SS) (27 µM) (24–29 µM). ANT I wITh SEvEN SETAE, ThREE ARE bARbULATE MAcROSETAE, ANT II wITh 11 SMOOTh SETAE. ANT III SENSORIAL ORgAN wITh TwO gLObULAR SENSILLA IN A cUTIcULAR fOLd, ANd TwO gUARd SENSILLA. S.g.v STRONgLy cURvEd, ONE vENTRAL MIcROSENSILLUM. ANT IV AS TyPIcAL fOR ThE gENUS wITh SENSILLA S7 hyPERTROfIEd. EyES 2 + 2 wITh bLAck PIgMENT. LAbRUM wITh 2/0, 4 SETAE . MANdIbLES wITh 3 TEETh. MAxILLAE STyLIfORM. LAbIUM wITh SETAE A–G ORdINARy ANd TwO PAIRS Of POSTLAbIAL SETAE. HEAd wITh CL, Af, Oc, DI, DE, DL ANd L + Sc TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. HEAd chEATOTAxy IS IN FIg. 30 ANd IN TAb. 11.

LEgS chAETOTAxy fROM I TO III, cOxAE 3, 7, 6; TROchANTERS 7, 7, 7; fEMORA 13, 12, 11; TIbIOTARSI 17, 19, 19, wIThOUT TENENT hAIRS. ThORAcIc ANd AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy IN FIgS 30 ANd 31 . ThE TOTAL bOdy chAETOTAxy by dEMITERgITE IS ShOwN IN TAbS 11 ANd 12. VENTRAL TUbE wITh 4 + 4 SETAE. FURcAL vESTIgE wITh 4 MIcROSETAE ANd NO SETOLAE. VENTROLATERAL AREAS Of Abd I ANd III wITh 3 SETAE FIg. 32 . FEMALE gENITAL PLATE wITh 3 + 3 PREgENITAL, 10 cIRcUMgENITAL ANd 2 EUgENITAL SETAE, ANAL vALvES wITh 11 SETAE ANd 2 SETOLAE. VENTRAL AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy AS IN FIg. 32 .

Remarks. Palmanura sernai PALAcIOS-VARgAS & SIMÓN BENITO 2009 wAS dEScRIbEd wITh ONLy TwO SPEcIMENS fROM ChAPARRAL, AT TOLIMA PROvINcE IN COLOMbIA, 850 MASL, bUT ThEy hAd SOME TERATOLOgIc chARAcTERS, AS ThE LAck Of SENSORIAL SETAE ON Abd V. HAvINg NEw SPEcIMENS fROM COLOMbIA, ALLOwS TO cORREcT ThE ORIgINAL dEScRIPTION ANd TO chEck ThE vARIATION. SPEcIMENS fROM CALI, ALSO REPRESENT A NEw LOcALITy fOR ThE SPEcIES. P. sernai ANd P. normae , ShARE ThE bARbULATE SETAE Of dORSAL chAETOTAxy, bUT ThE fIRST SPEcIES hAS cEPhALIc SETAE A ANd G whIch ARE AbSENT IN P. normae . BOdy chAETOTAxy IS vERy SIMILAR IN bOTh SPEcIES bUT IS MORE AbUNdANT IN ThE dORSO–LATERAL TUbERcLES Of Th II ANd III ANd LATERAL TUbERcLES ON Abd III ANd IV, AS ShOwN IN TAb. 13.

Figures

FIGURES 30–32. Palmanura sernai. Palacios-Vargas & Simón Benito, 2009. 30, dorsal chaetotaxy of head and Th I–III; 31, dorsal chaetotaxy of Abd I–VI; 32, ventral chaetotaxy of Abd II–VI.