Entomobrya boneti, Jordana, Rafael & Baquero, Enrique, 2006

Jordana, Rafael & Baquero, Enrique, 2006, Two new species of Entomobrya (Collembola, Entomobryomorpha) from the cave collembolan collection of Bonet from Asturias and Cantabria (north of Spain), Zootaxa 1153, pp. 17-26 : 18-25

Entomobrya boneti n. sp. ( Figs 1–6 )

Type­locality: SPAIN, Cantabria, Puente el Viesgo.

Type­specimens: Holotype (female) and 10 paratypes in the same slide of 1930, labelled as: “955dN Museo de Madrid Lab. de Entomol. Entomobrya marginata Tullberg. — Cueva del Castillo Puente Viesgo Santander VIII­ 930 F. Benitez”. The holotype is the number 1 in the slide, as it is marked in figure 1. Five additional paratypes in two slides (four and one specimens respectively) labelled as the first slide.

Material deposited: MNCN (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales ­CSIC­, Madrid).

Description ( Figures 1–6 )

Body length up to 2.06 mm without antennae (n= 11). Ground colour pale yellow. Eye patches dark blue. Antennae without pigment ( Fig. 6 ), but probably the colours faded over the years because Bonet described the antenna with an annuli in the distal part of antennal segment I. The colour pattern of the abdominal segments is formed by two lateral longitudinal bands from mesonotum to abdominal segment V ( Fig. 6 ). The rest of the body is transparent and was probably white in life.

Antennae approximately half as long as the body, with a trilobed apical vesicle ( Fig. 2 ). Dimensions of the different parts of the body of each specimen are given in Table 1. Body chaetotaxy and taxonomic features are given in the Table 3 , following Jordana & Baquero (2005). Head bothriotrichum present. As in other Entomobrya species, the labral setae have the formula 5, 5, 4. Each labral papillae with small not setaceous projections. Trochanteral organ with 19 setae ( Fig. 5 ), similar to E. nivalis in the description by STACH (1963).

There are no differentiated setae on tibiotarsus, with exception of the presence of the smooth terminal setae on legs III characteristic for the genus. Pro, meso and metalegs show a small fold in the third distal part of the tibiotarsi. Unguis as in figure 3, with a pair of inner teeth to 55% from the unguis base. Lateral and dorsal teeth on the middle of the unguis, as described by Bonet (1931). Unguiculus spike­like, with smooth inner edge. Set of 39 characters in Table 3 , with comparison with the closely related species.

Discussion

The set of characters used to separate the Entomobrya species ( Jordana & Baquero, 2005), show that the species most similar to E. boneti n. sp. are E. marginata (Tullberg, 1871) Brook, 1883 and E. albocincta (Templeton, 1835) (differences in Table 3 ). The abdominal chaetotaxy is the same in the three species but there are some differences in the chaetotaxy of the head and mesonotum (this last character is very conserved among the Entomobrya species). The labral papilla have small teeth in the new species, whereas they are smooth in E. marginata and E. albocincta . As well as they show differences in the apical vesicle of antennal segment IV and in the location of the dorsal and lateral tooth of the unguis.

E. albocincta has a characteristic banding pattern, which has been used by many authors to identify the species; also E. marginata has a characteristic body pigmentation constituted by a narrow pigmented band at the end of each tergite, but this pattern is also common to other species. On contrary E. boneti n. sp. which is almost colourless except for the eye patches and the slightly faded colour in the lateral part of thoracic and abdominal segments. The chaetotaxy of these three species is the same on the abdominal segments I–IV.

Derivatio nominis

The name is dedicated to F. Bonet, collembologist of the twenty century.

Entomobrya luquei n. sp. ( Figs 7–10 )

Type­locality: SPAIN, Asturias, Llanes.

Type­specimens: Holotype (female) and 10 paratypes in the same slide dated 1929, labelled as: “226N Museo de Madrid. Lab. de Entomol. Lledia, C. de Llanes (Asturias), C. Cardin. Agua encharcada. 16­I­ 929”. The holotype is the specimen number 6 in the slide, which is marked in figure 8.

Material deposited: MNCN (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales ­CSIC­, Madrid).

Description ( Figures 7–10 )

Body length up to 1.71 mm without antennae (n= 11). Ground colour pale yellow. Eye patches dark blue. Antennae without pigment ( Fig. 7 ), in these old slides. The pattern of the body pigmentation is formed by two lateral patches on the anterior part of the mesonotum, six patches on the posterior and lateral part of the abdominal segment IV and a posterior band on the abdominal tergite V. The rest of the body is transparent and was probably white in the living animal.

Antennae less than half as long as the body, with a bilobed apical vesicle. Measure and ratios of the different body parts for each specimen are given in Table 2. Body chaetotaxy and taxonomic features are given in Table 4 , following Jordana & Baquero (2005). Head bothriotrichum present. As in other Entomobrya species, the labral setae have the formula 5, 5, 4. Each labral papillae with small not setaceous projections. Trochanteral organ with more than 15 setae.

There are no differentiated setae on tibiotarsus, with exception of the smooth terminal setae on legs III as typical for the genus. Unguis as in figure 10, a pair of inner teeth to 50% from the unguis base. Lateral teeth to 33% of the unguis and basal teeth in a basal position. Unguiculus spike­like, with smooth inner edge. Set of 39 characters in Table 4 with comparison with E. nicoleti (Lubbock, 1868) which is the closely related species.

Discussion. The set of characters used to separate the Entomobrya species ( Jordana & Baquero, 2005), show that the species most similar to E. luquei n. sp. is E. nicoleti , (differences in Table 4 ). The abdominal chaetotaxy is the same in the two species but they differ in the chaetotaxy of the head. The labral papilla have small teeth in the new species whereas they are smooth in E. nicoleti . There are also differences in the apical vesicle of antennal segment IV, simple in E. nicoleti and bilobed in the new species. E. luquei n. sp. presents a very small distal tooth on the unguis, even though it was observed in only one specimen. This tooth is very clear in E. nicoleti . A striking and important character is the number of setae on the manubrial plate, 5–6 in E. luquei n. sp. ( Fig. 9 ) and 3 in E. nicoleti .

Bonet (1931) at page 277 cited C. Cardin as a collector of the different caves from Asturias, but did not cite this particular cave from Llanes. The information of the slide ( Fig. 8 ) can be interpreted as Lledia, road of Llanes, water pool. Thus the species could be a surface species, not from a cave but stored with the Bonet cave collection slides. The commentary written above about the activities of C. Cardin and his discovery of the cave that now bear his name, lead us to think that this new species was collected in a cave.

Derivatio nominis

The name is dedicated to Carlos González Luque, cantabrian speleologist.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Entomobrya boneti n. sp. Habitus (the numbers means the chaetotaxy of the characteristics 1 – 5, 11 – 12, 18 – 22, 23, 25, 27, 29 and 30).

FIGURE 7. Entomobrya luquei n. sp. Habitus (the numbers means the chaetotaxy of the characteristics 1 – 5, 11 – 12, 18 – 22, 23, 25, 27, 29 and 30).

FIGURES 8 – 10. Entomobrya luquei n. sp. 8. Slide with the number of the types. 9. Manubrial plate. 10. End of tibiotarsi III.

FIGURES 1 – 5. Entomobrya boneti n. sp. 1. Slide with the number of the types. 2. Apical vesicle of antennal segment IV. 3. End of tibiotarsi III. 4. Manubrial plate. 5. Trochanteral organ.

Tables

TABLE 3. Comparative set of characteristics between E. boneti n. sp., E. marginata and E. albocincta. For legend of characteristics see Jordana and Baquero (2005) (in bold the differences).

Species	Ch.1	Ch.2	Ch.3	Ch.4	Ch.5	Ch.6	Ch.7	Ch.8	Ch.9	Ch.10
Entomobrya marginata	3	2	0	2	3	1	2	2	2	1
Entomobrya albocincta	3	1	0	3	2	1	2	1	2	1
Entomobrya boneti n. sp.	3	1	0	1	2	2	2	3	2	1
Species	Ch.11	Ch.12	Ch.13	Ch.14	Ch.15	Ch.16	Ch.17	Ch.18	Ch.19	Ch.20
Entomobrya marginata	2	4	0	4	1	0	0	1	2	1
Entomobrya albocincta	3	3	0	4	2	0	0	1	2	1
Entomobrya boneti n. sp.	2	3	0	4	2	0	0	1	2	1
Species	Ch.21	Ch.22	Ch.23	Ch.24	Ch.25	Ch.26	Ch.27	Ch.28	Ch.29	Ch.30
Entomobrya marginata	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2
Entomobrya albocincta	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2
Entomobrya boneti n. sp.	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	2
Species	Ch.31	Ch.32	Ch.33	Ch.34	Ch.35	Ch.36	Ch.37	Ch.38	Ch.39
Entomobrya marginata	0	1	1	0	1	?	?	1	1
Entomobrya albocincta	0	1	1	0	1	3	1	1	1
Entomobrya boneti n. sp.	0	1	1	0	2	3	2	1	1

TABLE 4. Comparative set of characteristics between E. luquei n. sp. and E. nicoleti. For legend of characteristics see Jordana and Baquero (2005) (in bold the differences).

Species	Ch.1	Ch.2	Ch.3	Ch.4	Ch.5	Ch.6	Ch.7	Ch.8	Ch.9	Ch.10
E. nicoleti	2	1	0	3	3	2	2	1	2	1
Entomobrya luquei n. sp.	3	1	0	3	2	2	2	2	2	1
Species	Ch.11	Ch.12	Ch.13	Ch.14	Ch.15	Ch.16	Ch.17	Ch.18	Ch.19	Ch.20
E. nicoleti	2	3	0	4	?	0	0	2	2	1
Entomobrya luquei n. sp.	2	3	0	4	1	0	0	2	2	1
Species	Ch.21	Ch.22	Ch.23	Ch.24	Ch.25	Ch.26	Ch.27	Ch.28	Ch.29	Ch.30
E. nicoleti	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	2
Entomobrya luquei n. sp.	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	2
Species	Ch.31	Ch.32	Ch.33	Ch.34	Ch.35	Ch.36	Ch.37	Ch.38	Ch.39
E. nicoleti	0	1	1	0	1	3	2	1	1
Entomobrya luquei n. sp.	0	1	1	0	2	5–6	2	1	1