Lepidocyrtus pseudosinelloides Gisin, 1967

Mateos, Eduardo & Winkler, Daniel, 2018, New data clarifying the taxonomy of European members of the Lepidocyrtus pallidus - serbicus group (Collembola, Entomobryidae), Zootaxa 4429 (3), pp. 548-568 : 557

Lepidocyrtus pseudosinelloides Gisin, 1967

(in Gisin 1967a)

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Material examined. Five paratypes (of sex not visible) on slides from type locality (“ Cueva del Cantal ”, Jaca municipality, Huesca province, Spain, see Gisin, 1967a), deposited at the MHN.

Redescription. Body length 1.6‒1.8 mm (without head nor furca). Relation of antennal joints I‒IV as 1:2.1:2.1:3.3. In none of the five specimens studied was the dorsal head chaetotaxy completely clear, and chaetae A0 and A2a were not visible. We can suppose these chaetae were present and the chaetotacic scheme would be A0A2a A2A3M2S3Pa5 ( Fig. 2 ). Interocular chaetotaxy with s, t, p chaetae. The body chaetotaxy was also unclear and only macrochaetae of dorsal abd.III (pm6, p6, m7a and p8p) and dorsal abd.IV chaetotaxy were clearly visible. The abd.IV chaetotaxy match the one described for L. florae sp. nov ( Figs 25‒26 ) with only some little differences such as chaetae C1p, T3 and D1p smooth (instead of ciliated). Other characters as described by Gisin (1967).

Discussion. Gisin (1967a) described the dorsal macrochaetotaxy of L pseudosinelloides as “the same as L. serbicus ”, which for dorsal head is A0A2A3M2S3Pa5. Our revision of the type material is congruent with this scheme, although we could not be sure about the presence of chaetae A2a.

Figures

FIGURES 1–2. Dorsal head chaetotaxy (left side), broad circles—long ciliated macrochaetae, small circles—short ciliated macrochaetae: 1, L. arrabonicus; 2, L. pseudosinelloides.

FIGURES 25–27. Lepidocyrtus florae sp. nov.: 25, abd.IV chaetotaxy, broad black circles—broad ciliated macrochaetae, small black circles—thin ciliated macrochaetae, open circles—mesochaetae, triangles—fan-shaped chaetae, x—trichobotria, psp—pseudopore; 26, abd.IV trichobotrial complex; 27, abd.V chaetotaxy, broad black circles—broad ciliated macrochaetae, small black circles—thin ciliated macrochaetae, open circles—mesochaetae.