A new species of seira (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Seirini) from northern brazil, with the addition of new chaetotaxic characters
Seira caerucinerea sp. nov., a new species of springtail from the Cerrado domain, state of Tocantins, Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species is mainly characterized by bluish-gray coloration and dorsal chaetotaxy presenting macrochaeta S7 on head, three macrochaetae (a6, m6 and p6) on...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) |
| Repositorio: | Repositório Institucional do INPA |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio:1/15271 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/15271 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Collembola Entomobryidae Lepidocyrtinae Seira Seirini |
| Sumario: | Seira caerucinerea sp. nov., a new species of springtail from the Cerrado domain, state of Tocantins, Brazil, is described and illustrated. The new species is mainly characterized by bluish-gray coloration and dorsal chaetotaxy presenting macrochaeta S7 on head, three macrochaetae (a6, m6 and p6) on margin of metathorax and 4+4 macrochaetae (a1, m2, m3 and m4i) on abdomen I. Characteristics of maxillary and labial papillae, chaetotaxy of subcoxae, collophore, ventral region of head, ventral and lateral region of abdomen IV and V, which are usually omitted in species descriptions within the genus, are also provided. This is the first species of Seira described from the Cerrado domain, as well as the first record of the genus from the state of Tocantins. © 2014 Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia. All Rights reserved. |
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