Contribution to the eyed Sinella from China: two new species and additional reports on nine known species (Collembola: Entomobryidae)
Author
Ding, Yin-Huan
Author
Zhang, Feng
text
Zootaxa
2015
3973
3
474
490
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.4
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1175-5326
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Sinella qufuensis
Chen & Christiansen, 1993
Figs 6
,
43–47
Type
locality.
China
, Shangdong, Qufu.
Material examined.
Holotype
and
paratypes
;
2 females
on slides and
1 in
alcohol,
China
: Jilin Province: Changchun City: Northeast Changchun City Urban Wetland Park,
43.986°N
,
125.36°E
, alt.
217 m
,
31.viii.2013
, in litter, F Zhang and X Sun leg. (# 2013
DBCC
).
Additions to original description.
Ant. III organ with 2 rods; chaeta 6–9 as ordinary smooth chaetae (
Fig. 43
). Clypeal chaetae 9, all smooth, 5 of them much smaller (
Fig. 44
). Post-labial chaetae H1, X, and
X2-4
ciliate;
X3
sometimes absent. Cephalic groove with 8 chaetae, the first (G1) and the third ciliate. Trochanteral organ with 13– 15 spiny chaetae,
10–13 in
arms and 2–3 between arms (
Fig. 45
). Ventral tube anteriorly with 7+7 ciliate chaetae (
Fig. 46
); posteriorly with 12 smooth chaetae; each lateral flap with 8 smooth chaetae (
Fig. 47
). S-chaetotaxic formula 2, 2/1, 2, 2, –, 3 sens, 1, 0/1, 0, 0 ms.
Distribution.
Shandong, Jilin.
Remarks.
S. qufuensis
is the only 4+4 eyed species from
China
. It differs from another 4+4 eyed species,
S. humicola
Brown, 1926
from
Iraq
, in having an outer tooth on unguiculus and the absence of “smooth” inner differentiated tibiotarsal chaetae.