The Neotropical genera of Paronellinae (Collembola, Entomobryoidea, Paronellidae) with description of two new species and redescription of Campylothorax mitrai
Author
Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante
Author
Cipola, Nikolas Gioia
text
Zootaxa
2017
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.1
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Genus
Campylothorax
Schött, 1893
Diagnosis.
Adult specimens large (up to
4.5 mm
). Body pigments forming distinct color patterns, specimens never totally white and rarely with diffused and uniform pigments covering all body. Heavily ciliate scales present, apically rounded or irregular. Dorsal head and trunk with reduced number of mac. Dorsal-anterior cephalic bothriotricha present. Antennae long, more than twice the total length of body. Eyes 8+8, lenses G and H reduced, sometimes hardly visible. Th. III enlarged and conspicuously humped, resulting in a bent body between Th. III and Abd. I (
Fig. 2
). Th. II–Abd. V with ms and sens formula 10|10100 and 11|011–3, respectively. Abd. II to IV bothriotricha formula as 2/3/3 or 2/3/4 (secondary lateral bothriotricha-like chaetae sometimes present). Manubrium without spines; dens with one or two rows of spines and/or elongated ciliate spiniform mac; mucro elongate with 5 or rarely 4 or 6 teeth (adapted from
Mitra & Dallai 1980
, Cipola & Oliveira 2016,
Soto-Adames 2016
).
Remarks on Brazilian
fauna.
The species of
Campylothorax
recorded from
Brazil
are:
C. cassagnaui
Mitra & Dallai, 1980
,
C. mitrai
Bellini & Meneses, 2012
,
C. plagatus
Cipola & Oliveira, 2016
,
C. schaefferi
Börner, 1906
and
C. viruaensis
Santos, Cipola & Bellini, 2016
(in:
Santos
et al.
2016
,
Abrantes
et al.
2012
,
Bellini & Meneses 2012
, Cipola & Oliveira 2016,). The
type
locality of the presumably widely distributed
C. schaefferi
is unknown. Börner’s description was based on specimens harvested from orchids grown in
Germany
, in
Hamburg
Museum (University of
Hamburg
), collected from “São Francisco,
Brazil
”.
Mitra & Dallai (1980)
provided a map indicating the
type
locality as
São Francisco do Sul
municipality, Santa Catarina State,
Brazil
. But the original description does not provide such data. In a Brazilian geographical context “São Francisco” can be the largest river in
Northeast Region of Brazil
or a municipality name (and there are at least five Brazilian municipalities in far apart states with the same name). Because of this and in the absence of the
type
material (destroyed according curators of University of
Hamburg
,
Germany
), the identity of
C. schaefferi
should be further investigated. Also, the condition of 4 mucronal teeth reported to the species in
Mitra & Dallai (1980)
maybe possibly because the basal tooth could be very small in some specimens of
Campylothorax
, as we observed in
C. mitrai
, or even due the analysis of abnormal specimens.
The recent descriptions of
C. plagatus
,
C. viruaensis
and now the redescription of
C. mitrai
may point out to other two diagnostic features within the genus, or at least to the Neotropical species: absence of the pretarsal chaetae and of the smooth chaeta opposite to the tenent hair on the hind unguiculus, commonly found in practically all other taxa of Entomobryoidea. This late feature was already reported by
Mari Mutt (1987a)
to
C. sabanus
(
Wray, 1953
)
.