The genus Arrhopalites (Collembola, Arrhopalitidae) in Asia, with the description of two new Japanese species of Yosiis collection
Author
Zeppelini, Douglas
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Zootaxa
2004
2004-02-06
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.430.1.1
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Arrhopalites
japonicus Yosii, 1956: 99
, figs. 339343
Material
examined:
Lectotype
♀
in alcohol
16x1954
,
JAPAN
,
Tokyo
,
Nippara Do cave
,
R
. Yosii &
S. Uéno
leg.
1 paralectotype ♀
in a slide,
16x1954
,
JAPAN
,
Tokyo
,
Nippara Do cave
,
R
. Yosii &
S. Uéno
leg.
Several
paralectotypes
in alcohol, same data as holotype.
1 ♀
,
Kanagawa
,
Manazuru
,
10iii1970
,
R
.
Yosii
leg.,
MHN
.
Principalisgroup (
Fig. 5
, AK). Body setae as in figure D. Ant. IV with eight subsegments (Fig. A), apex with a capitate sense rod (Fig. B). Ant. III with basal swelling; sense organ (Fig. C) with 2 parallel sense rods in a single shallow pit; seta Aai clubshaped and blunt; Api and Ape slender and bristlelike; Ae, Ap and Ai normal elongate setae. 1+1 eyes, no pigment. A3, L12, IL13 and M4 cephalic setae slightly spinelike, M5 absent (Fig. J). Metatrochanteral organ (seta D2) elongate (Fig. G). Second and third ungues with a clear inner tooth, tunica on first unguis only (figs. K, ac). First and second unguiculi with a corner tooth, no apical filament. Corpus tenaculum with one setae (Fig. H). Dens with 7 dorsal E setae, E15 spinelike; setae L14 spinelike; D12 and Id14 present (Fig. E); 4 ventral setae rows (3,2,1,1) (Fig. E). Mucro narrow, gutterlike, both edges serrate (Fig. F). Anal valve without cuticular spines; setae C19 swollen basally, chaetotaxy (Fig. I). Female subanal appendage rodlike, slightly flattened and distal two thirds deeply serrate (Fig. I).
Biogeographic zone 3a.
Remarks: This species can be easily recognized by the number of the subsegments of the Ant. IV, the basal swelling on Ant. III, and the shape of the female subanal appendage. See also remarks for
A. yosii
sp. n.