New Oligaphorura species (Collembola: Onychiuridae) from the forests of East Asia

Zootaxa. 2019 Aug 28;4661(2):zootaxa.4661.2.2. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.2.2.

Abstract

Three new species of the genus Oligaphorura are described from southwestern China (O. wanglangensis sp. nov.) and Russian Far East (O. ussurica sp. nov. and O. kedroviensis sp. nov.). The first species is most similar to O. inya (Weiner Kaprus', 2014) known from the Altai Mountains, and can be distinguished from the latter by larger body size and the number of ventral psx (00/000/121101m in O. wanglangensis sp. nov. vs 1/000/212101m in O. inya). The other two species, together with O. montana Weiner, 1994, O. pseudomontana Sun Wu, 2012 and O. chankaensis Sun Wu, 2012, form a distinct species-group characterized by the presence of 4+4 pso on antennal base and full-sized anal spines. Both these new species differ from the known congeners of this group by having only 2+2 posterior pso on the head. O. ussurica sp. nov. and O. kedroviensis sp. nov. can be separated due to different number of abdominal pso, i.e. 5(6)5554 in the former vs 44454 in the latter species.

Keywords: Taxonomy, Oligaphorurini, Southwestern China, Russian Far East, East Palaearctic, key.

MeSH terms

  • Animal Distribution
  • Animals
  • Asia, Eastern
  • China
  • Forests*
  • Insecta*
  • Montana
  • Russia