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<mods:title>Taxonomy of the Proisotoma complex. VI. Rediscovery of the genus Bagnallella Salmon, 1951 and epitoky in Bagnallella davidi (Barra, 2001), comb. nov. from South Africa</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Potapov, Mikhail</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Deharveng, Louis</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Janion-Scheepers, Charlene</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>University of Cape Town, Department of Biological Sciences, Rondebosch, 7701, Private Bag x 3, South Africa &amp; Iziko Museums of South Africa, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa</mods:affiliation>
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<taxonomicName LSID="758841A8-3C8C-512D-BB51-61DBE84910CD" authority="(Salmon, 1943)" baseAuthorityName="Salmon" baseAuthorityYear="1943" class="Collembola" genus="Bagnallella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bagnallella sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">Bagnallella sedecimoculata (Salmon, 1943)</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 14" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 4. S-patterns of Abd. IV-VI in the genera Cryptopygus Bagnallella and Scutisotoma (1) B. sedecimoculata (2) and B. dubia (3, 4) 2, 3 furca, anterior view 4 macrochaetae and s and ms-chaetae on body. s = s-chaetae, ms = ms-chaetae." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1072.71307.figures1-4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/614138" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Figure 2</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Salmon, JT" authorityYear="1943" class="Collembola" family="Isotomidae" genus="Folsomia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Folsomia sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">Folsomia sedecimoculata</taxonomicName>
Salmon, 1943
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<taxonomicName class="Collembola" family="Isotomidae" genus="Holotoma" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Holotoma sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">Holotoma sedecimoculata</taxonomicName>
(Salmon, 1943)
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<taxonomicName class="Collembola" family="Isotomidae" genus="Proisotoma" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Proisotoma sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">Proisotoma sedecimoculata</taxonomicName>
(Salmon, 1943)
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2008-03-15" collectingDateMax="2010-11-06" collectingDateMin="2008-03-15" collectorName="Berlese, L. D., A. B., L. D., D. Porco, Spes" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" elevation="600" latitude="-34.038273" location="Somerset" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Western Cape">
<collectingCountry name="South Africa">South Africa</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingRegion country="South Africa" name="Western Cape">Western Cape</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingCounty>Stellenbosch</collectingCounty>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Jonkershoek Nature Reserve</collectingMunicipality>
, canyon to waterfall, SAF-086,
<geoCoordinate degrees="34.005570" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="-34.00557">34.005570°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="18.992067" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="18.992067">18.992067°E</geoCoordinate>
,
<collectingDate value="2008-03-15">15/03/2008</collectingDate>
, forest litter,
<collectorName>Berlese, L.D.</collectorName>
and
<collectorName name="A Babenko">A.B.</collectorName>
leg.;
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:0942D46D41CB6B57C93288040CD8E3D2" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" latitude="-34.038273" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" name="Somerset" stateProvince="Western Cape">Somerset</location>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:E76B831AC416EE629A65800DD71C6AD5" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" latitude="-34.038273" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" name="Helderberg" stateProvince="Western Cape">Helderberg</location>
, SAF-107, SAF-109, SAF-116,
<geoCoordinate degrees="34.040883" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="-34.040882">34.040883°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="18.873649" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="18.87365">18.873649°E</geoCoordinate>
, alt.
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.0" unit="m" value="600.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.0" unit="m" value="600.0">600 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2009-03-04">04/03/2009</collectingDate>
, native forest litter,
<collectorName name="Louis Deharveng">L.D.</collectorName>
and
<collectorName name="A Babenko">A.B.</collectorName>
leg.;
<collectingRegion country="South Africa" name="Western Cape">Cape</collectingRegion>
Town, Wynberg,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:C26B74D80E7481FDB9328C07A7FC279A" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" latitude="-34.038273" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" name="Table Mountain" stateProvince="Western Cape">Table Mountain</location>
, second collapse, SAF-141,
<geoCoordinate degrees="33.987637" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="-33.987637">33.987637°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="18.405750" direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="18.40575">18.405750°N</geoCoordinate>
, alt.
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.25" unit="m" value="725.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="7.25" unit="m" value="725.0">725 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2009-03-10">10/03/2009</collectingDate>
, native forest litter,
<collectorName name="Louis Deharveng">L.D.</collectorName>
and
<collectorName name="A Babenko">A.B.</collectorName>
leg.; Constantia, Silvermine, in a small forest patch above Tokai, SAF-235,
<geoCoordinate degrees="34.038273" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="-34.038273">34.038273°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="18.395478" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="18.395477">18.395478°E</geoCoordinate>
, alt.
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.9" unit="m" value="390.0">
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.9" unit="m" value="390.0">390 m</elevation>
</quantity>
,
<collectingDate value="2010-11-06">06/11/2010</collectingDate>
, dead wood,
<collectorName>D. Porco</collectorName>
leg.;
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:9333CF5A97E10D707ED57E037C1AFD20" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" latitude="-34.038273" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" name="Kalk Bay" stateProvince="Western Cape">Kalk Bay</location>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:C1777A23AAA758A77479ECFEDEEB244F" country="South Africa" county="Stellenbosch" latitude="-34.038273" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="18.395477" municipality="Jonkershoek Nature Reserve" name="Echo Valley" stateProvince="Western Cape">Echo Valley</location>
,
<collectorName>Spes</collectorName>
</materialsCitation>
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-03-01" collectorName="L. D., A. B." country="Bona" location="Afromontane forest" specimenCount="1">
<collectingCountry name="Algeria">Bona</collectingCountry>
forest, SAF-555,
<collectingDate value="2019-03-01">01/03/2019</collectingDate>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:F3FFDD588A11E3EEB4B4DC2FD3AC9886" country="Bona" name="Afromontane forest">Afromontane forest</location>
, moss on rock,
<collectorName name="Louis Deharveng">L.D.</collectorName>
and
<collectorName name="A Babenko">A.B.</collectorName>
leg
</materialsCitation>
.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<collectingCountry name="New Zealand">New Zealand</collectingCountry>
. NZL-049, Rotoiti: Lakes Rototongata and Rotoatua,
<date value="1996-01-08">08/01/1996</date>
, primary forest, litter, L.D. and A.B. leg.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2010-07" collectorName="P. Greenslade." country="Australia" latitude="-37.62998" location="St. Helens" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="143.89081" municipality="University Ballarat" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Victoria">
<collectingCountry name="Australia">Australia</collectingCountry>
.
<collectingRegion country="Australia" name="Victoria">Victoria</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingDate value="2010-07">July 2010</collectingDate>
,
<collectingMunicipality>University Ballarat</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:0FABA3DADCD58AD8C28026176226FFBC" country="Australia" latitude="-37.62998" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="143.89081" municipality="University Ballarat" name="St. Helens" stateProvince="Victoria">St. Helens</location>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="37.629979" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="-37.62998">37.629979°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="143.890801" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="143.89081">143.890801°E</geoCoordinate>
,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Myrtaceae" genus="Eucalyptus" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Eucalyptus" order="Myrtales" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Eucalyptus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
plantation, moss,
<collectorName>P. Greenslade.</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2016-04" collectorName="Turf, Berlese, L. Phillips" country="Macquarie Island" latitude="-54.5549" location="Bauer Bay" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="158.876" specimenCount="1">
<collectingCountry name="Australia">Macquarie Island</collectingCountry>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:758841A83C8C512DBB5161DBE84910CD:EA84EB2CA51125BCF96C9D463116840F" country="Macquarie Island" latitude="-54.5549" longLatPrecision="6" longitude="158.876" name="Bauer Bay">Bauer Bay</location>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="54.5549" direction="south" orientation="latitude" precision="5" value="-54.5549">54.5549°S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="158.8760" direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="5" value="158.876">158.8760°E</geoCoordinate>
,
<collectingDate value="2016-04">April 2016</collectingDate>
,
<collectorName>Turf</collectorName>
sample,
<collectorName>Berlese</collectorName>
extraction,
<collectorName>L. Phillips</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="185" type="diagnosis">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Maxillary palp bifurcate, two prelabral chaetae. Dens slender, with 16-20 anterior chaetae. Mucro bidentate. Anterior side of manubrium with 1+1 chaetae. 33/22235 s and 10/100 ms on body. Without ventral chaetae on Th.III.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="185" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
Colour grey. Cuticle outwardly smooth. 8+8 ocelli, G and H smaller. PAO about as long as 0.8 Ant. I and as 1.1-1.3 Claw III. Maxillary outer lobe with four sublobal hairs and bifurcate maxillary palp. Labral formula as 2/554. Labium full set of guards (e7 present), three proximal and four basomedian chaetae. Ventral side of head with 4-5+4-5 postlabial chaetae. 11 chaetae on Ant.I, with three basal micro s-chaetae (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">bms</emphasis>
), of which one
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">bms</emphasis>
large, and two ventral s-chaetae (s), Ant.II with three
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">bms</emphasis>
and one laterodistal s, Ant.III with one
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">bms</emphasis>
and six distal
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">s</emphasis>
(including two lateral). Thorax without ventral axial chaetae.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
Macrochaetae weakly differentiated, medial ones on Abd.V as long as 0.4-0.5 of tergal midline. S-chaetae weakly differentiated. S-formula as 43/22235 (s), 10/100 (
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">ms</emphasis>
). S-chaetae on Abd.I-III in mid-tergal position. General pattern of chaetotaxy as in
<taxonomicName class="Collembola" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. dubia" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dubia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">B. dubia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 14" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 4. S-patterns of Abd. IV-VI in the genera Cryptopygus Bagnallella and Scutisotoma (1) B. sedecimoculata (2) and B. dubia (3, 4) 2, 3 furca, anterior view 4 macrochaetae and s and ms-chaetae on body. s = s-chaetae, ms = ms-chaetae." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1072.71307.figures1-4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/614138" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">4</figureCitation>
). Ti.1-2 with 21 chaetae, Ti.3 with few additional chaetae. Tibiotarsal tenent chaetae not developed. Ventral tube with 4+4 laterodistal and usually with six posterior chaetae (four in a transversal row). Retinaculum with 4+4 teeth and two chaetae. Anterior furcal subcoxae with 11-15, posterior ones with 7-9 chaetae. Anterior side of manubrium with 1+1 distal chaetae (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 14" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 4. S-patterns of Abd. IV-VI in the genera Cryptopygus Bagnallella and Scutisotoma (1) B. sedecimoculata (2) and B. dubia (3, 4) 2, 3 furca, anterior view 4 macrochaetae and s and ms-chaetae on body. s = s-chaetae, ms = ms-chaetae." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1072.71307.figures1-4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/614138" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">2</figureCitation>
). Dens with 17-19(16-20) anterior chaetae, posterior side of dens with crenulation and seven chaetae (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 14" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 4. S-patterns of Abd. IV-VI in the genera Cryptopygus Bagnallella and Scutisotoma (1) B. sedecimoculata (2) and B. dubia (3, 4) 2, 3 furca, anterior view 4 macrochaetae and s and ms-chaetae on body. s = s-chaetae, ms = ms-chaetae." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1072.71307.figures1-4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/614138" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">2</figureCitation>
). Mucro bidentate. Ratio of manubrium: dens: mucro = 5.3-6.3: 5.9-6.7: 1.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="185" type="discussion">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Discussion.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Salmon" baseAuthorityYear="1943" class="Collembola" genus="Bagnallella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bagnallella sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Bagnallella sedecimoculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was described from New Zealand and was designated as type species for the genus
<taxonomicName authorityName="Salmon" authorityYear="1951" class="Collembola" genus="Bagnallella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bagnallella" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Bagnallella</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(see the discussion to the genus above). The type specimen from New Zealand was studied (
<bibRefCitation author="Potapov, M" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" refId="B30" refString="Potapov, M, Janion-Scheepers, C, 2017. A review of Salmon's Folsomia types from New Zealand (Collembola). New Zealand Entomologist: Vol.40: 1-7." title="A review of Salmon's Folsomia types from New Zealand (Collembola). New Zealand Entomologist: Vol. 40: 1 - 7." year="2017">Potapov and Janion-Scheepers 2017</bibRefCitation>
), although only one generic character (separation of two abdominal segments) was proven. The redescription given above is based mostly on the South African material which looks conspecific to one individual in hand from New Zealand (L.D. and A.B. leg.).
<taxonomicName baseAuthorityName="Salmon" baseAuthorityYear="1943" class="Collembola" genus="Bagnallella" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bagnallella sedecimoculata" order="Collembola" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sedecimoculata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Bagnallella sedecimoculata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
resembles
<taxonomicName class="Collembola" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="B. dubia" pageId="0" pageNumber="185" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dubia">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="185">B. dubia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and differs by ventral chaetae on Th.III (absent vs present) and a few more anterior chaetae on dens (16-20 vs 12-16). The latter character is not stable enough to separate the two species.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="185">Probably widely distributed. So far with scattered records in the South Hemisphere (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Macquarie Island).</paragraph>
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