Mexicaphorura, Palacios-Vargas, Jose G. & Catalan, Elihu, 2013

Palacios-Vargas, Jose G. & Catalan, Elihu, 2013, A new genus and species of Tullbergiidae (Collembola) from the Pacific Mexican coast, ZooKeys 326, pp. 91-97 : 92

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.326.5451

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scientific name

Mexicaphorura
status

gen. n.

Mexicaphorura gen. n.

Diagnosis.

Habitus of Mesaphorura . Small size, about 0.6 mm. Color white. Tegumentary grain fine and uniform. Ant. III with 2 big and modified dorsal sensilla of different shape and one big ventral sensillum cup-like shaped. Formulae of the pseudocelli in the type species 11/122/22221. Pseudocelli of Abd. V guarded by the sensory setae similar to normal setae. Abd. IV tergite without posterior surrounding semicircular narrow ridge. One pair of small and simple anal spines.

Type species.

Mexicaphorura guerrerensis sp. n.