Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species
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Cipola, Nikolas Gioia
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Morais, José Wellington De
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Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-12-24
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Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis
(Börner, 1903)
sensu
Coates, 1968
Figs 2
,
11
,
Tables 1
and
3
Lepidocyrtus
(
Lepidocyrtinus
)
annulicornis
B̂rner, 1903: 154,
Mozambique
, Lake
Malawi
(as Nyassa See), not examined.
Pseudosira
(
Mesira
)
annulicornis
; B̂rner 1908: 56.
Lepidocyrtus annulicornis
;
Womersley 1934: 463
.
Lepidocyrtinus
(
Mesira
)
annulicornis
;
Denis 1935: 5
,
Mozambique
, stations: Bas Sangadzé, Vila Pery, Nova Choupanga.
Seira annulicornis
;
Coates 1968: 449
, figs 43-44,
Mozambique
and Africa South: Pongola and Pretoria.
Coates 1970: 182
,
South Africa
, Kruger National Park (catalog).
Jacquemart 1974: 7
(cited).
Janion-Scheepers
et al.
2015: 68
, Africa South
(catalog).
FIGURE 11A–B.
Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis
(modified from
Coates 1968
);
A
, chaetotaxy of Th II to Abd II (left side);
B
, chaetotaxy of the manubrial plate and proximal dens (lateral view).
Diagnosis.
Body pale white with dark violet pigments on Ant I–IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 6 median (
m1ip
present) in
m1–2
complex and 11 posterior mac (
p3
absent); Th III–Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively (
Fig. 11A
); unguis a.t. present; unguiculus
pe
lamella serrated but toothless; manubrial plate with 2–3 blunt mac; dens with 4 blunt mac (
Fig. 11B
) (modified from B̂rner 1903;
Coates 1968
).
Remarks.
The specimen of
L. annulicornis
described by
Yosii (1959)
from Cape Town does not show the same morphology of specimens from
Mozambique
(
sensu
B̂rner 1903;
Denis 1935
;
Coates 1968
) (
Fig. 2
), and for this reason they are herein designated as
L. ryozoi
nom. nov.
In this same sense the chaetotaxy description of
Szeptycki (1979)
, as well as the interpretation by Soto-Adames (2008) of
Seira annulicornis
(locality not specified) also do not fit neither the description of
Yosii (1959)
or
Coates (1968)
, and consequently should not be considered as identity of this species. Even so,
L. annulicornis
differs from these species by body with dark violet pigments on Ant I–IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally, while
L. ryozoi
nom. nov.
has pigments on Ant III–IV, Ant II and tibiotarsus I–III distally (unknow in Szeptycki’s specimens).
Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis
differs in chaetotaxy by Th II with 6 median mac in
m1–2
complex (
5 in
L. ryozoi
and Szeptycki’s specimens) and posteriorly without
p3
mac (present in
L. ryozoi
). They also differ by Th III with
p1i
mac and
p1i2
mac absent (opposite in
L. ryozoi
), and dens with 4 blunt mac (
9–10 in
L. ryozoi
). Other differences among similar species to
L. annulicornis
are listed in
Table 3
.