Plutomurus

Barjadze, Shalva, Kováč, Ľubomír & Parimuchová, Andrea, 2020, Contribution to the genus Plutomurus Yosii (Collembola, Tomoceridae): notes on the morphology of Plutomurus carpaticus Rusek & Weiner and P. unidentatus (Börner), Zootaxa 4816 (3), pp. 67-80 : 72-78

Plutomurus sp.

The specimens collected in twilight and dark zones of many karst caves across the Western Carpathians in Slovakia are similar to P. carpaticus in scale distribution, number of eyes, prelabral chaetae, papillate chaetae on labrum, internal spine-like chaetae on tibiotarsi, internal teeth on claws, chaetae on corpus of tenaculum, teeth on mucro and shape of tenent hair. They differ in a number of Mc on Abd. II (3 in the “new species” versus 2 in P. carpaticus ). However, in this possibly new species of the genus Plutomurus the analysis of COI marker and molecular compari- son with the related species are needed to verify its taxonomical status.

Material examined. SLOVAKIA, Západné Tatry Mts , Zadný úplaz Abyss, 1779 m asl, twilight zone, 1 ex. on slide, pitfall trap, 01.x.2010, leg. Ľ. Kováč ; Liptovská kotlina Basin , Liskovská jaskyňa Cave, 500 m asl, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, wood shaving, 14.ix.2004, leg. Ľ. Kováč ; Horehronské podolie, Bystrianska jaskyňa Cave, 566 asl, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, pitfall trap, 23.x.2002, leg. Ľ. Kováč ; Slovak Paradise , Psie diery Cave, 942 m asl, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, pitfall trap, 06.ii.1997 , leg. V. Košel ; ibidem, Vojenská jaskyňa Cave, 946 m asl, dark zone, 2 ex. on slides, pitfall trap, 06.ii.1997 , leg. V. Košel ; Volovské vrchy Mts. , Šarkania diera Cave, 690 m asl ,, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, hand collecting on rotten wood, 29.iv.2005, leg. Z. Višňovská ; ibidem, Kolónia II Cave, 807 m asl, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, hand collecting, 02.iii.2011, leg. A. Mock ; Čierna hora Mts , Veľká ružínska jaskyňa Cave, 614 m asl, dark zone, 1 ex. on slide, pitfall trap, 14.x.1996, leg. Ľ. Kováč ; Slovak Karst , Stará brzotínska jaskyňa Cave, 258 m asl, dark zone, Veľká sieň, 1 ex. on slide, pitfall trap, 06.ix.2010, leg. Ľ. Kováč ; Strážovské vrchy Mts., Pružinská Dúpna Cave, 590 m asl, dark zone, 6 ex. on slides, 16.iv.2018, leg. Ľ. Kováč, A. Parimuchová & N. Raschmanová.