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Figs 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
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<paragraph id="8051359DB821A5730119837ACC076EBF" pageId="8" pageNumber="85">Size. Up to 2.6 mm</paragraph>
<paragraph id="9037787E1522CE9EDD586E70016A2143" pageId="8" pageNumber="85">Color pattern. Background color white or light orange, with dark purple pigment limited to Ant. III-IV, latero-posterior margin of Th. II, lateral margin of Th. III and meso- and metathoracic coxae. Some individuals have and additional irregular purple spot on the base of the furcula, others have no pigment at all, except for the antennae. The black or dark brown look of living specimens is produced by the thick covering of black or dark brown scales (Fig. 7A).</paragraph>
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Figure 7.
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. A habitus (INHS Acc. 567,402) B dorsal chaetotaxy of head C detail of anterior chaetotaxy of head.
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<paragraph id="FDA57BE50A262357E5BADA3F303798A1" pageId="8" pageNumber="85">Appendicular scales distribution. Dorsally on Ant. I, femur on middle and hind legs and ventral face of furcula. Scales absent from Ant. II-IV, fore legs, ventral tube and dorsal face of manubrium.</paragraph>
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Head. Apical bulb on Ant. IV absent. Dorsal chaetotaxy of the head as in Figures 7B,C: Row An with 7-12 Mc; anterior Mc A0 and A2 present, relatively small but with differentiated sockets, and inserted among a group of enlarged fusiform elements field normally including only Mc A0 (Fig. 7B; fig. 2 in
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), all other anterior Mc absent; posterior Mc absent, element Ps5 enlarged and fusiform; postocular bothiotrix displaced laterally and inserted behind eyes E and F. Prelabral and all labral setae smooth. Basal seta of outer maxillary palp smooth, subequal to terminal appendage; sublobal plate with 3 seta-like appendages and 1 minute, spine-like appendage on dorsal edge. Lateral appendage on labial papilla E curved anteriorly and short, not reaching tip of papilla. Labial palp with 5 smooth proximal setae. Labial triangle formula as m1M2rEL1L2, A1-5: m1 sometimes coarsely ciliate and always shorter than M2; r short, smooth and conic, sensilla-like (Fig. 8A). Anterior row of post-labial setae smooth or minutely denticulate; setae on posterior rows coarsely ciliate (Fig. 8B, C); cephalic groove with 5-6 +5-6 setae, anterior most seta smooth, setae becoming more coarsely ciliate from anterior to posterior rows; postlabial group C with 1-4 setae; modified post-labial setae 2-3, short, conic and smooth, similar to labial seta r, inserted among lateral columns.
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Figure 8.
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. A labial triangle B postlabial chaetotaxy C detail of postlabial chaetotaxy.
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body chaetotaxy. Dorsal macrosetae formula 00/0233+1+6. Dorsal S-seta 11/011n3; S-microseta 10/10100. Mesothoracic hood produced, anteriorly rounded, partially or completely shadowing head. Meso- and metathoracic chaetotaxy normal, with neither Th. II polychaetosis nor Th. III reductions. Chaetotaxy of Abd. I normal, with a6 present and 11 posterior setae. Abd. II (Fig. 9A, B) with all supplementary
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fan-shaped; a2 and a6 fusiform and finely ciliate in larger individuals, normal smooth setae in smaller individuals; a3 well anterior and not reaching sensillum as; as subequal to or shorter than a3; Mc m3 and m5 present; p4, m4, and p5 smooth; elements a2p, m3e, m4i and p5p absent. Abd. III (Fig. 9C) with all supplementary setae fan-shaped; a2, a6 and am6 fan-shaped; a3 well anterior and not reaching as; as shorter than a3 and m3; Mc pm6, p6 and p7 present; mc p3, m4, p5 and S-microseta d2 present; a7 smooth or very finely denticulate, displaced laterally, not reaching am6. Abd. IV (Fig. 10) with inner Mc B4, B5, B6 and C1; all supplementary setae of both
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complex fan-shaped; mc s present (Fig. 11B); bothriotricha T2 and T4 well separated; mc T3 and D1p subequal, short, displaced anteriorly, closer to T2 than T4, and not reaching Pe or Pi; lateral Mc D3, E2, E3, F1, F2, F3 present (Fig. 11A); posterior setae 10-12.
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Figure 9.
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dorsal chaetotaxy: A Abd. II B Abd. II of
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Figure 10.
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, dorsal chaetotaxy of Abd. IV.
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Figure 11.
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. A dorso-lateral chaetotaxy of Abd. IV B detail of bothriotricha complex chaetotaxy of Abd. IV C posterior face of collophore.
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<paragraph id="34F4DAF55C0DE6E24CD156C47DC473D5" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">Legs. Trochanteral organ with up to 41 setae. Tenent hair spatulate on all legs. Unguis with 3-4 inner teeth, distal unpaired tooth sometimes absent; all teeth small; proximal unpaired tooth well separated from basal paired teeth. Fore and middle unguiculi relatively short, strongly truncate, with well marked inner tooth and weakly serrate posterior edge; hind unguiculus usually lanceolate or weakly truncate, rarely strongly truncate, inner tooth absent or weakly delineated; hind unguiculus always clearly longer (surpassing inner proximal unpaired ungual tooth) than fore and middle unguiculi (barely reaching inner proximal unpaired tooth).</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E05A14F79A3B09B9C85E829CB1CC727D" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">Ventral tube. All faces covered by many finely ciliate setae; posterior face with 1+1 smooth setae on distal margin in addition to ciliate setae (Fig. 11C)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F6B3CCFB1A726AA9A4B9C83BC306D9B4" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BBB37CAE75096E509170C56A6F1460D" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">This species is characterized by the enlarged, rounded mesothoracic hood, absence of dorsal head Mc posterior to A2, smooth labial setae, absence of seta m3e on Abd. II, four inner Mc on Abd. IV, heteromorphic unguiculi (truncate on fore and middle legs, lanceolate or weakly truncate on hind leg), and a rounded but somewhat asymmetric tubercle on the dens.</paragraph>
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As pointed out by
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the large bodied members of the
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species group (
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Folsom, 1932,
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Denis, 1931) are very similar and difficult to distinguish.
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suggested that
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, originally described from the island of Santa Cruz in the
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, was likely to be a junior synonym of
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. Our collections of
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from Santa Cruz fit the color pattern description of
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and at first the specimens were identified as that species, but evaluation of other morphological characters showed the specimens to fit the range of variation reported for
<taxonomicName id="E1937B88ADFC7F04B838BCFC98E9D170" class="Collembola" family="Entomobryidae" genus="Lepidocyrtus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lepidocyrtus nigrosetosus" order="Entomobryomorpha" pageId="11" pageNumber="88" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nigrosetosus">Lepidocyrtus nigrosetosus</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="D09EE587A4C03C781220801B7E184D93" author="Mari Mutt, JA" journalOrPublisher="Caribbean Journal of Science" pageId="32" pageNumber="109" pagination="1 - 48" title="[1987] Puerto Rican species of Lepidocyrtus and Pseudosinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae)." volume="22" year="1986">Mari Mutt 1986</bibRefCitation>
). To confirm these observations we studied the type series of
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deposited in the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="1847DF34F9DB1CFF03E00A9D8400E235" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">
The type series of
<taxonomicName id="C150B243F7C0DD6058F99F0851650CAE" class="Collembola" family="Entomobryidae" genus="Lepidocyrtus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lepidocyrtus leleupi" order="Entomobryomorpha" pageId="11" pageNumber="88" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leleupi">Lepidocyrtus leleupi</taxonomicName>
comprises the holotype, 11 paratypes and 4 additional specimens mounted on slides. The slide labeled holotype holds two individuals.
<bibRefCitation id="C2367828F7F078F7E70F22385CFF6D45" author="Jacquemart, S" journalOrPublisher="Mission zoologique belge aux iles Galapagos et en Ecuador (N. et J. Leleup, 1964 - 1965)" pageId="32" pageNumber="109" pagination="137 - 157" title="Collemboles nouveaux des iles Galapagos." volume="3" year="1976">Jacquemart (1976)</bibRefCitation>
did not specify which of the two individuals was the holotype, hence here we designate an individual as the holotype (arrow in Figure 12). The holotype and other members of the type series
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lack mc m3e on Abd. II (Fig. 9B) and show the same range of morphological variation seen in specimens of
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from Puerto Rico. For this reason we consider
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a junior synonym of
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. This makes
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the most geographically widespread member of the genus in the Neotropical region (
<bibRefCitation id="B59400EF1281A163E59ABB0F4BE91685" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">Soto-Adames and Anderson in press</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<caption id="9F662BB227BFDB7EA99E2BD8A47DBA69" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">
<paragraph id="80FD6916FA8ABB88C81F51005E0C2978" pageId="11" pageNumber="88">
Figure 12.
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holotype (arrow).
</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="A7062973E1B5FB110BEBA3E359A99F27" pageId="12" pageNumber="89" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="1E3DF9FC16573E722857D4AB0194277F" pageId="12" pageNumber="89">
<pageBreakToken id="660C2137FBDA9E87CD64FE29FA8528F1" pageId="12" pageNumber="89" start="start">Distribution</pageBreakToken>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="FA6D34521BB6EF8866894CF0C3D02CE5" pageId="12" pageNumber="89">
<normalizedToken id="88C0D6F4429A5D0A0FBAAE8F75EB5042" originalValue="Galápagos">Galapagos</normalizedToken>
(new record), Puerto Rico, Colombia, Jamaica (
<bibRefCitation id="04CAC8FD9DCA04ED363C992D84D73152" author="Mari Mutt, JA" journalOrPublisher="Florida, USA" pageId="32" pageNumber="109" title="A catalog of the Neotropical Collembola" volumeTitle="Flora &amp; Fauna Handbook" year="1990">Mari Mutt and Bellinger 1990</bibRefCitation>
), St. Thomas US Virgin Islands (
<bibRefCitation id="CA32B935F30FA67A67F4BC4B8E27B345" author="Soto-Adames, FN" journalOrPublisher="Caribbean Journal of Science" pageId="33" pageNumber="110" pagination="77 - 105" title="Four new species and new records of springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) from the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, with notes on the chaetotaxy of Metasinella and Seira." volume="38" year="2002 a">Soto-Adames 2002a</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="50632C05D05E2583DF79D60B9928AC21" author="Soto-Adames, FN" journalOrPublisher="Molecular phylogenetics and evolution" pageId="33" pageNumber="110" pagination="27 - 42" title="Molecular phylogeny of the Puerto Rican Lepidocyrtus and Pseudosinella (Hexapoda: Collembola), a validation of Yoshii's &quot; color pattern species &quot;." url="10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00250-6" volume="25" year="2002 b">2002b</bibRefCitation>
), Brazil (
<bibRefCitation id="96A78834A648075EC28C460E935C9689" author="Bellini, BC" journalOrPublisher="Revista Brasileira de Entomologia" pageId="30" pageNumber="107" pagination="386 - 390" title="Registros da fauna de Collembola (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) no Estado da Paraiba, Brasil." url="10.1590/S0085-56262009000300012" volume="53" year="2009">Bellini and Zeppelini 2009</bibRefCitation>
), Nevis (
<bibRefCitation id="FF80B5EA03067A14F9E25ED8023ED00C" pageId="12" pageNumber="89">Soto-Adames and Anderson in press</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C836544C8B79883A2674173E4CA8EC78" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="90" pageId="12" pageNumber="89" type="materials_examined">
<paragraph id="AB25C80678424106C81D3F4F76D8CFE7" pageId="12" pageNumber="89">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="09F347CFC3EB49939296FDB31DFEA481" lastPageId="13" lastPageNumber="90" pageId="12" pageNumber="89">
Ecuador,
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, Santa Cruz Island: 1♀ on slide, Cueva Cascajo, wet breakdown with leaf litter on entrance floor, 9.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby and M. Sutton), GLP-030, INHS Acc. 567,402; 1♀ on slide, Cueva
<normalizedToken id="17260E7AA719F3CFEFCEC7B243B9F56E" originalValue="Cañón">Canon</normalizedToken>
, mossy breakdown near entrance, 15.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R. Toomey), GLP-032, INHS Acc. 567,403; 1 on slide, Cueva Aguirre, leaf litter, entrance, 10.iii.2014 (G. Hoese), GLP-046, INHS Acc. 567,404; 1♀ on slide, Cueva Chato 1, on wet soil near entrance, 8.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R.
<pageBreakToken id="3C8B4BDE77218C5E2DBF9A75C06800EF" pageId="13" pageNumber="90" start="start">Toomey</pageBreakToken>
), GLP-075, INHS Acc. 567,405; 1 on slide, Cueva Chato 1, on wet soil near entrance, 8.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R. Toomey), GLP-075, CDRS; 1♂ on slide, Cueva Chato 2, leaf litter at entrance, 15.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R. Toomey), GLP-086, INHS Acc. 567,406; 1 on slide, Cueva Chato 2, leaf litter at entrance, 15.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R. Toomey), GLP-086, CDRS; 2 on slides, Cueva Chato 2, leaf litter at entrance, 15.iii.2014 (S. Taylor, J. Jacoby, S. Hagan and R. Toomey), GLP-086, INHS Acc. 567,407 &amp; 567,408.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="E1F60550C00EFBF3DE3FDC4A9F3ED484" pageId="13" pageNumber="90">
<taxonomicName id="4FFFC28BC1B69DCFD3727D46C6CDEE1A" class="Collembola" family="Entomobryidae" genus="Lepidocyrtus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lepidocyrtus leleupi" order="Entomobryomorpha" pageId="13" pageNumber="90" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="leleupi">Lepidocyrtus leleupi</taxonomicName>
Holotype,
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, Santa Cruz, humus
<normalizedToken id="1401F13C2B1880D7881058948B3AB099" originalValue="forêt">foret</normalizedToken>
humile, 200m, xi.1964; 11 paratypes with same collection information as holotype; 2 other slides with same collection locality, but 22.x.1964; 2 slides
<normalizedToken id="A82EA459A42F38FD92F529E67D7F900F" originalValue="Galápagos">Galapagos</normalizedToken>
, Santa Cruz, Station 92B, 17.ii.1974, I.G. 24.965, RBINS.
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