Simonachorutes weinerae Skarżyński, Arbea & Piwnik, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Skarżyński, Dariusz
name: Arbea, Javier I.
name: Piwnik, Agata
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Simonachorutes
Simonachorutes weinerae

description: Simonachorutes weinerae sp. nov.
Figs 13–16, 18–20, Tab. 1
Type material. Holotype, male, sand with Thymus sp., open sandy field, Pustynia Błędowska, Chechło near Zawiercie, Śląska Upland (S Poland), 29.viii.2014, leg. A. Piwnik, D. Skarżyński (IEB); paratype, female, same data as holotype (IEB).
Other material. Male, grassland on southern slope of gypsum hill, Wola Zagojska near Busko-Zdrój, Małopolska Upland (S Poland), 4.vii.1991, leg. M. Bieniek (ISEA).
Etymology. Dedicated to Wanda M. Weiner, the excellent specialist in Collembola.
Description. Body length without antennae 0.51–0.52 mm. Colour in alcohol blue. Granulation fine.
Antennae slightly shorter than head (Fig. 18). Ant. I with 7, Ant. II with 11 and Ant. III with 22 ordinary setae. Ant. III and IV fused dorsally and separated ventrally. Sensory organ of Ant. III consisting of two small internal sensilla and two equal in size subcylindrical guard sensilla; two guard setae between them, ventral microsensillum present. Ant. IV with simple or trilobed apical vesicle, 6 subcylindrical sensilla (S2 present), dorsoexternal microsensillum and subapical organite.
8 + 8 ocelli. PAO oval, 1.4–1.6 times larger than neighbor ocellus, with 7–8 vesicles (Fig. 13). Buccal cone very long (Figs 18, 19). Mandibles absent, maxilla styliform. Labrum long pointed at apex. Labium without organites x and papillate setae L, with 10 + 10 ordinary setae (Fig. 14). Perilabial area with 5 + 5 subequal setae.
Dorsal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 1. Setae and sensory setae (s) short. Microsensilla on Th. II present. Head with unpaired seta d1 present and seta a0 absent. Th. I with 3 + 3 setae. Th. II with 11 + 11 setae (a2 present, a5 and m4 absent) and Th. III with 10 + 10 setae (a2, a5 and m4 absent). Abd. I–III with 8 + 8 setae (a3, m3 and m4 absent), Abd. IV with 9 + 9 setae (m-row setae absent). Abd. V with setae a2 absent and p2 present. Ventral chaetotaxy as in Fig. 2. Thoracic sterna without setae, ventral tube with 4 + 4 setae.
Dens with 5 setae, mucro with slightly curved inner lamella (Figs 16, 20). Mucro/dens ratio: 3.75–4.25. Mucro + dens/claws III ratio: 2.1–2.2. Manubrium with 12 + 12 posterior setae. Retinaculum with 3 + 3 teeth (Fig. 20).
Tibiotarsi I, II and III with 15, 15 and 14 setae, respectively (Fig. 15). Femora I, II and III with 10, 10 and 9 setae, trochanters I, II and III with 5, 5 and 5 setae, coxae I, II and III with 3, 7 and 7 setae, subcoxae 2 of legs I, II and III with 0, 2 and 2 setae, subcoxae 1 of legs I, II and III with 1, 2 and 2 setae, respectively. Claw without inner tooth and lateral teeth. Empodial appendage absent.
Remarks. See remarks to S. romeroi comb. nov.
description: Published as part of Skarżyński, Dariusz, Arbea, Javier I. & Piwnik, Agata, 2016, Simonachorutes, a new genus of Pseudachorutinae (Collembola, Neanuridae) from Europe, pp. 171-179 in Zootaxa 4205 (2) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/192928