A key for the determination of European species of Eosentomon Berlese, 1909 (Protura, Eosentomata, Eosentomidae)

Julia Shrubovych; Ernest C Bernard

doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.22664

A key for the determination of European species of Eosentomon Berlese, 1909 (Protura, Eosentomata, Eosentomidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Mar 12:(742):1-12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.742.22664. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Julia Shrubovych^{1

2

3}, Ernest C Bernard⁴

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Soil Biology, Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
² Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Sławkowska 17, 31-016 Krakow, Poland.
³ State Museum of Natural History, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Teatral'na St. 18, UA 79008 L'viv, Ukraine.
⁴ University of Tennessee, Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2505 E.J. Chapman Drive, 370 Plant Biotechnology, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.

Abstract

European species of Eosentomon are examined. A taxonomic key to identification of 61 Eosentomon species is provided based on body chaetotaxy, shape, and position of sensilla on the foretarsus and shape of sensilla on the maxillary palps. Biogeographically, 13 of the known European Eosentomon species are known only from their type localities.

Keywords: Eosentomon; Europe; Protura; taxonomic key.