Ephemerotoma porcella ( Ellis, 1976 ) Ellis, 1976

Potapov, Mikhail, Kahrarian, Morteza, Deharveng, Louis & Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, 2015, Taxonomy of the Proisotoma complex. V. Sexually dimorphic Ephemerotoma gen. nov. (Collembola: Isotomidae), Zootaxa 4052 (3), pp. 345-358 : 356

Ephemerotoma porcella ( Ellis, 1976) comb. nov.

Fig. 34

Syn.: Dimorphotoma porcellus Ellis, 1976

Material. One paratype: reproductive adult male (Crete) deposited in Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz.

Taxonomical additions. Characters which were seen include: 2 prelabral chaetae, maxillary outer lobe with simple maxillary palp, number of e -guards E reduced (exact number not seen), Abd. V with 4 sens arranged in two transverse rows ( Fig. 34 ). Th.III with ventral chaetae.

Affinity. See P. anopolitanus and E. skarzynskii sp. nov. An image of the habitus of an epitokous male in lateral position is given in Schulz (2010).

Figures

FIGURES 34 – 41. Posterior part of abdomen in genera Ephemerotoma and Proctostephanus: 34, E. porcella, Abd. V; 35, P. cidi, Abd. V, dorsal view, only sens shown; 36, posterior part of abdomen of P. sanctiaugustini, lateral view; 37 – 41, modification of posterior part of abdomen in Proctostephanus (37 – 39) and Ephemerotoma (40 – 41): P. c i di (37), P. stuckeni (38), P. anopolitanus (39), E. multituberculata (40), E. skarzynskii sp. nov. (41).