A NEW SPECIES OF THE BRISTLETAIL GENUS PETROBIELLUS SILVESTRI, 1943 (MICROCORYPHIA: MACHILIDAE, PETROBIELLINAE) FROM KURIL ISLANDS
Journal: Far Eastern entomologist
Year: 2025

A new species Petrobiellus iturupiensis Kaplin, sp. n. is described from the coast of Iturup Island. Among the described congeners, this new species is most similar to P. takunagae Silvestri, 1943 but differs from latter in the structure of the eyes, ocelli, maxillary palps, urosternites and urocoxites, posterior angle of urosternites, and number of divisions in male parameres.