Palmanura normae Palacios-Vargas 1996
Creators: name: Arango, Angela
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
name: Vázquez, Magdalena
name: Marín, Elida P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Palmanura
Palmanura normae

description: Palmanura normae Palacios-Vargas, 1996
FIgS 27–29, TAbS 9–10
Material studied. 21 SLIdES fROM MEXICO, MORELOS, fROM fOUR dIffERENT LOcALITIES, fIvE fEMALES, ThREE MALES ANd fIvE jUvENILES INcLUdINg dE hOLOTyOPE. VILLA dE AyALA, Ex. LITTER, 12.X.1983, LEg. J. G. PALAcIOS, NEAR SAN PAbLO, TLALTIzAPáN, Ex. LITTER, 10.X.2010, LEg. J.G. PALAcIOS-VARgAS, TwO fEMALES, ONE MALE ANd ThREE jUvENILES fROM EL VERgEL, YAUTEPEc, 29.V.2011, LEg. J.G. PALAcIOS-VARgAS, ANd TwO fEMALES fROM TLAyAcAPAN, 22.VI.2015, LEg.
Redescription. LENgTh (N = 11) 848 µM (RANgE 690µM–986 µM). whITE cOLOREd whEN ALIvE ANd IN ALcOhOL. GRANULATIONS STRONg, AbOUT ThE SIzE Of ONE EyE. TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. TwO kINdS Of bOdy SETAE, bARbULATE MAcROSETAE (BM) 72 µM (67–72 µM), IN AbdOMEN LONgER ThAN ON hEAd; MIcROSETAE (M) (37µM), bESIdES ThE SENSORIAL SETAE (SS) (27 µM) (25–30 µM). ANT I wITh SEvEN SETAE, ThREE ARE bARbULATE MAcROSETAE. ANT II wITh 11 SMOOTh SETAE. ANT III SENSORIAL ORgAN wITh TwO gLObULAR SENSILLA IN A cUTIcULAR fOLd, ANd TwO gUARd SENSILLA. S.g.v STRONgLy cURvEd, ONE vENTRAL MIcROSENSILLUM. ANT IV AS TyPIcAL fOR ThE gENUS wITh SENSILLA S7 hyPERTROfIEd. EyES 2 + 2 wITh bLAck PIgMENT, TwO OcULAR SETAE OcM bARbULATEd, OcP SMALL ANd bARbULATE. LAbRUM wITh 2/0, 4 SETAE. MANdIbLES wITh 3 TEETh. MAxILLAE STyLIfORM. LAbIUM wITh SETAE A– G ORdINARy ANd TwO PAIRS Of POSTLAbIAL SETAE. HEAd wITh CL, Af, Oc, DI, DE, DL ANd L + Sc TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. HEAd chEATOTAxy AS IN FIg. 27 ANd TAb. 9.
LEgS chAETOTAxy fROM I TO III, cOxAE 3, 7, 7; TROchANTERS 6, 6, 6; fEMORA 12, 12, 11; TIbIOTARSI 18, 18, 19, wIThOUT TENENT hAIRS. ThORAcIc ANd AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy AS IN FIgS 27 ANd 28. ThE TOTAL bOdy chAETOTAxy by dEMITERgITE IS ShOwN IN TAbS. 9 ANd 10. VENTRAL TUbE wITh 4 + 4 SETAE. FURcAL vESTIgE wITh 3 MIcROSETAE ANd NO SETOLAE. VENTROLATERAL AREAS Of Abd II ANd III wITh 3 SETAE (FIg. 29). FEMALE gENITAL PLATE wITh 3 + 3 PREgENITAL, 8 cIRcUMgENITAL ANd 2 EUgENITAL SETAE, ANAL vALvES wITh 11 SETAE ANd 2 SETOLAE. VENTRAL AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy AS IN FIg. 29.
Remarks. Palmanura normae PALAcIOS-VARgAS,1996 wAS dEScRIbEd fROM ANENEcUILcO, MORELOS, wITh jUST ONE jUvENILE SPEcIMEN. AddITIONAL SPEcIMENS cOLLEcTEd IN ThREE LOcALITIES IN MORELOS STATES ALLOw TO chEck ThE INTRASPEcIfIc vARIATION ANd A bETTER cOMPARISON wITh ThE RELATEd SPEcIES. IT IS INTERESTINg ThAT OcULAR SETAE OcP ANd DI SETAE ON Abd I ANd II ARE ShORTER ThAN OThER SETAE, AS dRAwN IN ThE ORIgINAL dEScRIPTION. SEE REMARkS fOR P. sernai fOR A dETAILEd dIffERENTIATION bETwEEN bOTh SPEcIES. P. normae IS SIMILAR TO P. matildae ANd P. pascuali fOR ThE REdUcTION Of hEAd chAETOTAxy, fOR cOMPARISON AMONg OThER chAETOTAxIc chARAcTERS REfER TO TAb. 13. ORIgINAL dEScRIPTION ShOwS SETAE G, bUT ALL ThE NEw SPEcIMENS fROM OThER LOcALITIES LAck SUch SETAE.
description: Published as part of Arango, Angela, Palacios-Vargas, José G., Vázquez, Magdalena & Marín, Elida P., 2018, Revision of the genus Palmanura Cassagnau, 1983 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae: Sensillanurini), pp. 128-154 in Zootaxa 4483 (1) on page 141, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1437545