Palmanura moralesi Palacios-Vargas & Arango, 2018

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 : 132-134

Palmanura moralesi Palacios-Vargas & Arango , sp. nov.

FIgS 9–11 , TAbS 3–4

Type material. HOLOTyPE: fEMALE ON SLIdE. PARATyPES: TwO fEMALES, TwO MALES ANd ONE jUvENILE IN SLIdES.

Type locality. MÉXICO, QUERéTARO, JALPAN dE AMILPAS, 30.XII.2015, LEg. A. ZALdívAR.

Description. LENgTh (N = 5) 522 µM (RANgE 473–640 µM). COLOR IN ALcOhOL whITE. GRANULATIONS STRONg, AbOUT ThE SIzE Of ONE EyE. TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. FOUR kINdS Of bOdy SETAE, PALMATE MAcROSETAE (PM) (22–24 µM), bARbULATE MAcROSETAE (BM) (22–27 µM), MESOSETAE (ME) (17–22 µM), MIcROSETAE (M) (12 µM), bESIdES ThE SENSORIAL SETAE (SS) (22–25 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 cURvEd, ONE vENTRAL MIcROSENSILLUM. ANT IV AS TyPIcAL fOR ThE gENUS wITh SENSILLUM 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 AS IN FIg. 9 ANd TAb. 3.

LEgS chAETOTAxy fROM I TO III, cOxAE 2, 6, 10; TROchANTERS 6, 6, 6; fEMORA 12, 10, 8; TIbIOTARSI 18, 18, 19, wIThOUT TENENT hAIRS. ThORAcIc ANd AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy AS IN FIgS 9 ANd 10 . ThE TOTAL bOdy chAETOTAxy by dEMITERgITE IS ShOwN IN TAb. 4. VENTRAL TUbE wITh 4 + 4 SETAE. FURcAL vESTIgE wITh 4 MIcROSETAE ANd NO SETOLAE. VENTROLATERAL AREAS Of Abd II ANd III wITh 3 SETAE RESPEcTIvELy FIg. 11 . 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. 11 .

Etymology. ThE SPEcIES IS NAMEd IN REcOgNITION Of ThE AdMINISTRATIvE wORk Of LIc. AURELIANO MORALES VARgAS AS AdMINISTRATIvE SEcRETARy Of ScIENcES FAcULTy AT UNAM, MExIcO fOR MANy yEARS.

Remarks. Palmanura moralesi sp. nov. by ITS chAETOTAxy RESEMbLES P. klompeni sp. nov. bUT ThEIR SETAE ORNAMENTATION IS SIMPLER, IN AddITION SETAE F IS PALMATE ANd ThERE IS NOT A SETA IN P. klompeni sp. nov. P. moralesi sp. nov. IS ALSO SIMILAR TO P. matildae bEcAUSE ThE STRONg REdUcTION Of cEPhALIc chAETOTAxy, LAckINg SETAE G ANd A, bUT ThEy dIffER IN ThE AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy whIch IS MORE AbUNdANT IN ThE NEw SPEcIES. FOR cOMPARISON, Of AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy REfER TO TAb. 13.

Figures

FIGURES 9–11. Palmanura moralesi Palacios-Vargas & Arango, sp. nov. 9, dorsal chaetotaxy of left side of head and Th I–III; 10, dorsal chaetotaxy of left side of Abd I–VI;11, ventral chaetotaxy of Abd III–V.