Short Communication Cyphoderopsis nepalensis (Wilson, 1982): A New Record of Collembola (Entomobryomorpha: Paronellidae) from India
Author
Mandal, G. P.
text
Records of the Zoological Survey of India
2020
120
4
487
490
journal article
10.26515/rzsi/v120/i4/2020/147037
2581-8686
13185405
Genus
Cyphoderopsis
Carpenter, 1917
Type
species
Cyphoderopsis kempi
Carpenter, 1917
Diagnosis of the genus:
Medium sized
Paronellidae
of 0.8 to
2.5 mm. Body colour usually white or weakly pigmented. Habitus rather broad, antennae shorter than body, scales generally absent on legs, present on antennae, head, body and furca. Antennae with 4 segments: Ant. I the shortest and Ant. IV the longest; Ant. IV not subdivided. Tenant hair either pointed on clavate, claw with 0–2 inner teeth; one (
ceylonica
group) or two (
kempi
group) rows of dental spines.Forth abdominal segment 3 to7 times as long as the third measured along dorsal axis. Furcula well developed, about 1.8 to 2.8 times as long as body. Mucro rather stout, straight, normally with 3 main teeth, the apical one blunt, the sub-apical one small and acute, the dorso-basal one acute and longer with 0–5 toothless basally.
In
Troglopedetes,
Ant. IV
is divided in two sub equal sub segments, but in
Cyphoderopsis
Ant. IV
is not sub divided.