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A species of the genus, characterized by the presence of (6)7 clearly differentiated dorsal sensilla and a rather large microsensillum on
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; 2+2 ocelli with traces of dark pigment under each of them; a distinct pattern of cuticular granulation on the terga; a specific form of PAO, almost completely hidden under the cuticular fold; the absence of lateral microsensilla and the presence of setae m1 on
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III; the basic
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.
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Length (without antennae)
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. Habitus typical of the genus: body slim and oblong, appendices short (
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). Colour white with few granules of dark pigment under ocelli. Tegument granulation rather coarse, secondary granules usually spinous at tip. Head with fields of fine granulations in central and posterolateral areas, forming a characteristic pattern of longitudinal stripes; similar granulations present each side of thoracic segments. Abd. IV with two oval fields of fine granulations located symmetrically with respect to medial line (
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).
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Antennae about as long as head. Ant. IV with a large simple vesicle apically, with 7 clearly differentiated sensilla with pointed apices (four dorso-internal [S1S4] and three dorso-external [S7S9]; S9 often absent from immature specimens), ms large, clearly broadened at apex, only slightly shorter in length than sensilla, subapical organite present (
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), ventral side with few ordinary setae. Antennal organ of Ant. III typical, inner sensilla small, sgv &amp; sgd only slightly larger, ms and about 1618 ordinary setae present on Ant. III. Ant. III with 7 and 10 setae, respectively.
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Head with 2+2 subequal ocelli, their diameter equal to 0.240.36 of PAO length. PAO sunken in a deep cavity and hardly visible from above, broadly oval in shape, edges pointed (
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). Buccal cone short, typical of the genus (
<figureCitation id="13682A4CFFFBFF84FEB82E44FEDBFB9C" box="[276,362,1051,1077]" captionStart="FIGURES 2431" captionStartId="8.[151,264,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[191,1396,195,1905]" captionTargetId="figure-17@8.[177,1410,181,1919]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURES 2431. Axenyllodes chinki sp. nov.: 24, general habitus; 25, cuticular granulation and dorsal chaetotaxy; 26 and 26a, PAO and ocelli; 27, chaetotaxy of antenna, dorsal view; 28, ventral chaetotaxy of head; 29, ventral chaetotaxy of abdomen; 30, tibiotarsi III; 30a, tip of leg III; 31, furca, lateral view. Scales: 2425, 2829, 0.1 mm, 2627, 3031, 0.01 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14797996" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14797996/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">Fig. 28</figureCitation>
). Maxillary palp simple. Labrum with 8 usual setae, medial pair of setae in anterior row much stronger, with tips curved laterally; four prelabral setae also present. Labium with five small apical spinules, two tiny organites and three common setae. Basomedial and basolateral fields of labium with 4+4 setae each. Maxilla typical of the family, with a strong and triangular head, mandibles invisible. Ventral side of head with 3+3 postlabial setae along ventral line.
</paragraph>
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Ordinary setae on dorsal side of body short, smooth and acuminate, distinctly longer on last abdominal terga, sensilla undifferentiated (
<figureCitation id="13682A4CFFFBFF84FE152EACFDA1FAA7" box="[441,528,1267,1294]" captionStart="FIGURES 2431" captionStartId="8.[151,264,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[191,1396,195,1905]" captionTargetId="figure-17@8.[177,1410,181,1919]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURES 2431. Axenyllodes chinki sp. nov.: 24, general habitus; 25, cuticular granulation and dorsal chaetotaxy; 26 and 26a, PAO and ocelli; 27, chaetotaxy of antenna, dorsal view; 28, ventral chaetotaxy of head; 29, ventral chaetotaxy of abdomen; 30, tibiotarsi III; 30a, tip of leg III; 31, furca, lateral view. Scales: 2425, 2829, 0.1 mm, 2627, 3031, 0.01 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14797996" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14797996/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">Fig. 25</figureCitation>
). Main characteristics of dorsal chaetotaxy: setae m1 present on Th. IIIII and absent from Abd. IV; Th. IIIII with four setae present in a-row (a1, a3, a4 and a5), m-row with two ordinary setae (m1 and m4) and lateral sensillum in m6 position, lateral microsensilla invisible; Abd. IIII with five setae in a-row (a1, a2, a3, a4 and a5).
</paragraph>
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Thoracic sterna without setae. Ventral tube with 3+3 distal setae, one seta also present each side of VT on sternum of Abd. I, Abd. IIIII with 45 ventral setae each side (
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). Tenaculum with 2+2 teeth, as usual. Furca small (
<figureCitation id="13682A4CFFFBFF84FF482F94FE87FA4C" box="[228,310,1483,1509]" captionStart="FIGURES 2431" captionStartId="8.[151,264,1943,1967]" captionTargetBox="[191,1396,195,1905]" captionTargetId="figure-17@8.[177,1410,181,1919]" captionTargetPageId="8" captionText="FIGURES 2431. Axenyllodes chinki sp. nov.: 24, general habitus; 25, cuticular granulation and dorsal chaetotaxy; 26 and 26a, PAO and ocelli; 27, chaetotaxy of antenna, dorsal view; 28, ventral chaetotaxy of head; 29, ventral chaetotaxy of abdomen; 30, tibiotarsi III; 30a, tip of leg III; 31, furca, lateral view. Scales: 2425, 2829, 0.1 mm, 2627, 3031, 0.01 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14797996" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14797996/files/figure.png" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">Fig. 31</figureCitation>
), manubrium with 4+4 setae on main part, 1+1 basal and 3+3 basolateral setae (8+
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total); dorsal side of dens with two setae and rather fine granulations. Mucro about as long as dens, strongly hooked and with clear lateral lamella. Anal opening located terminally; anal spines completely absent.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BEC36C9FFFBFF84FF6B2C67FD8DF914" blockId="7.[151,1437,259,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
Legs IIII with a stable set of setae: 1, 2, 2 setae on upper subcoxae, 0, 3, 3 setae on lower subcoxae, 34, 34, 34 setae on coxae, 5, 5, 4(5) on trochanters, 7, 7, 7 setae on femora, inner one thinner and longer. Seven setae also present on each tibiotarsi including two longer and clearly clavate at apex (
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). Unguis toothless, unguiculus rather long, needle-shaped (
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).
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3496542FFFBFF8AFF6B2C98FEB0F933" lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="163" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BEC36C9FFFBFF84FF6B2C98FDDBF880" blockId="7.[151,1437,259,2014]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FF6B2C98FEF9F948" bold="true" box="[199,328,1735,1761]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">Etymology</emphasis>
. Named after “chink”, a regional term used, according to Wikipedia &lt;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Chink_(geology)&gt;, “
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FE162CB3FE5CF880" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
in Central Asia for steep chalk and limestone escarpments and cliffs heights up to
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, often around flat-top elevation
</emphasis>
” (
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BEC36C9FFFBFF8AFF6B2D6CFEC3FB6C" blockId="7.[151,1437,259,2014]" lastBlockId="9.[151,1437,1087,1690]" lastPageId="9" lastPageNumber="163" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FF6B2D6CFE84F8E4" bold="true" box="[199,309,1843,1869]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">Affinities</emphasis>
. Currently, there are only five known species in the genus characterized by such a small number of chaetae (7 or 6) on the tibiotarsi as in
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FDEA2D08FD1BF8D8" box="[582,682,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. chinki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FD1E2D08FCBDF8D8" bold="true" box="[690,780,1879,1905]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFFBFF84FD1E2D08FCBDF8D8" box="[690,780,1879,1905]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FCB02D08FC16F8D8" box="[796,935,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. echinatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName id="4C534D4AFFFBFF84FC1A2D08FAB5F8DB" authority="Fjellberg, 1995" authorityName="Fjellberg" authorityYear="1995" box="[950,1284,1879,1906]" class="Collembola" family="Odontellidae" genus="Axenyllodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poduromorpha" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nematodes">
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FC1A2D08FBFFF8D8" box="[950,1102,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. nematodes</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFC24B38FFFBFF84FBF92D08FAB5F8DB" author="Fjellberg, A." box="[1109,1284,1879,1906]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" pagination="153 - 158" refId="ref12502" refString="Fjellberg, A. (1995) Collembola of the Canary Islands. II. Family Odontellidae. Entomologica Scandinavica, 26, 153-158. https://doi.org/10.1163/187631295X00152" type="journal article" year="1995">Fjellberg, 1995</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FAA32D08FA2DF8D8" box="[1295,1436,1879,1905]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. japonicus</emphasis>
Tamura
</taxonomicName>
in
<bibRefCitation id="EFC24B38FFFBFF84FEA12D23FE47F83C" author="Tamura, H. &amp; Yue, Q." box="[269,502,1915,1942]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" pagination="47 - 53" refId="ref13749" refString="Tamura, H. &amp; Yue, Q. (1999) Two new species of the genus Axenyllodes from Japan and China (Collembola: Pseudachorutidae). Edaphologia, 62, 47-53." type="journal article" year="1999">Tamura &amp; Yue, 1999</bibRefCitation>
,
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FE532D24FDC7F83C" box="[511,630,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FD062D24FCFFF83C" box="[682,846,1915,1941]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. comoriensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFC24B38FFFBFF84FCF82D24FC49F83C" author="Thibaud, J. - M." box="[852,1016,1915,1941]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" pagination="5 - 12" refId="ref14050" refString="Thibaud, J. - M. (2011) Les Collemboles des sables littoraux de l'Ile de la Grande Comore. Revue francaise d'Entomologie, New Series, 33 (1 - 4), 5-12." type="journal article" year="2011">Thibaud, 2011</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
. Most of them have a reduced number of ocelli (01). The only exception is
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FDEF2DC0FD0DF810" box="[579,700,1951,1977]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, described from the mountainous regions of southwestern
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, which, like
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FEB32D9CFE35F874" box="[287,388,1987,2013]" italics="true" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">A. chinki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFFBFF84FE222D9CFE5BF874" bold="true" box="[398,490,1987,2013]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFFBFF84FE222D9CFE5BF874" box="[398,490,1987,2013]" pageId="7" pageNumber="161" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
has 2+2 ocelli, almost identical dorsal and ventral chaetotaxies, as well as similar pattern of the integument granulation. These two species can easily be distinguished by the shape of the PAO (a single triangular lobe in
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFE022E3BFD99FBD4" box="[430,552,1124,1150]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. sinensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFD9A2E3BFDFCFBD4" box="[566,589,1124,1149]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">vs</emphasis>
broadly oval PAO with pointed edges, sunken in a deep cavity and hardly visible from above in
<taxonomicName id="4C534D4AFFF5FF8AFE3E2ED7FE46FB08" authorityName="Babenko &amp; Shveenkova &amp; Arbea" authorityYear="2025" box="[402,503,1159,1186]" class="Collembola" family="Odontellidae" genus="Axenyllodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poduromorpha" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chinki" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFE3E2ED7FE46FB08" box="[402,503,1159,1186]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. chinki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFE532ED7FDEBFB0B" bold="true" box="[511,602,1160,1186]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFF5FF8AFE532ED7FDEBFB0B" box="[511,602,1160,1186]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
), as well as the presence of anal spines and the absence of clavate tenent setae in
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFF5F2EF3FEC3FB6C" box="[243,370,1196,1222]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">
<taxonomicName id="4C534D4AFFF5FF8AFF5F2EF3FEDFFB6C" box="[243,366,1196,1222]" class="Collembola" family="Odontellidae" genus="Axenyllodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poduromorpha" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sinensis">A. sinensis</taxonomicName>
.
</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF4FF8BFF3B2DC8FEFCF806" bold="true" box="[151,333,1943,1967]" pageId="8" pageNumber="162">FIGURES 2431</emphasis>
.
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: 24, general habitus; 25, cuticular granulation and dorsal chaetotaxy; 26 and 26a, PAO and ocelli; 27, chaetotaxy of antenna, dorsal view; 28, ventral chaetotaxy of head; 29, ventral chaetotaxy of abdomen; 30, tibiotarsi III; 30a, tip of leg III; 31, furca, lateral view. Scales: 2425, 2829, 0.1 mm, 2627, 3031, 0.01 mm.
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFF3B298AFE96FC44" bold="true" box="[151,295,981,1005]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">FIGURES 32</emphasis>
. The type locality of
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFDAD298AFD71FC44" box="[513,704,981,1005]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">Axenyllodes chinki</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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One more species,
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFE0A2E8FFD9BFB40" box="[422,554,1232,1258]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. potapovi</emphasis>
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, also characterized by a strong reduction of the tibiotarsal setae, is described below. It can easily be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFD472EABFCFEFAA4" box="[747,847,1267,1294]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. chinki</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFCF42EABFC03FAA7" bold="true" box="[856,946,1268,1294]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFF5FF8AFCF42EABFC03FAA7" box="[856,946,1268,1294]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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by the complete absence of eyes (for other differences, see
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).
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Unfortunately, the number of tibiotarsal setae was not specified in two known species of the genus, i.e.
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFA9E2F63FA2DFAFC" box="[1330,1436,1340,1366]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. caecus</emphasis>
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and
<taxonomicName id="4C534D4AFFF5FF8AFF6A2F3FFD1CFAD3" authority="(Jordana &amp; Ardanaz, 1981)" baseAuthorityName="Jordana &amp; Ardanaz" baseAuthorityYear="1981" box="[198,685,1375,1402]" class="Collembola" family="Odontellidae" genus="Axenyllodes" kingdom="Animalia" order="Poduromorpha" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="monoculatus">
<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFF6A2F3FFEC5FAD0" box="[198,372,1375,1402]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. monoculatus</emphasis>
(
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)
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, in the original descriptions or subsequently, although the Canarian specimen identified by A. Fjellberg as
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFDE12FDBFDEFFA37" box="[589,606,1412,1438]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A</emphasis>
. cf.
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was noted to have 10109 setae on the tibiotarsi and 7 femoral setae (
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, p. 156). Both of them have a reduced number of ocelli (less than 2+2):
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFABB2FF7FA33FA68" box="[1303,1410,1448,1474]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. caecus</emphasis>
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is blind, whereas
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFEED2F93FE41FA4C" box="[321,496,1483,1510]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. monoculatus</emphasis>
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has only 1+1 ocelli.
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<paragraph id="8BEC36C9FFF5FF8AFF6B2FB0FEB0F933" blockId="9.[151,1437,1087,1690]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">
Using the most recent key to species of the genus (
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), the new species can be identified as
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFA9B2FAFFA24F9A0" box="[1335,1429,1520,1546]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. marci</emphasis>
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, described from a sandy beach in
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, which, like
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFD412C4BFCE1F984" box="[749,848,1555,1582]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. chinki</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFCFB2C4BFC00F987" bold="true" box="[855,945,1556,1582]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFF5FF8AFCFB2C4BFC00F987" box="[855,945,1556,1582]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, has 2+2 ocelli and lacks anal spines. These two species clearly differ in the chaetotaxy of the thoracic terga (
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFCDB2C67FC66F9F8" box="[887,983,1592,1618]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. marci</emphasis>
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is characterized by the absence of setae m1 and the presence of lateral ms on Th. IIIII) and the number of tibiotarsal setae (
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,
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<emphasis id="B927EADBFFF5FF8AFA952C03FA2DF9DC" box="[1337,1436,1627,1654]" italics="true" pageId="9" pageNumber="163">A. chinki</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A21457A0FFF5FF8AFF3B2CDFFF40F933" box="[151,241,1664,1690]" pageId="9" pageNumber="163" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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).
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