Sinella
Creators: name: Ding, Yin-Huan
name: Zhang, Feng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Entomobryidae
Sinella

description: Key to the eyed Sinella species from China
1 Unguiculus with a clear tooth on outer edge............................................................... 2
- Unguiculus smooth or serrate or with a tiny tooth on outer edge.............................................. 16
2 Mucronal basal spine absent........................................................ yasumatsui Uchida, 1948
- Mucronal basal spine present........................................................................... 3
3 Mucronal basal spine long reaching at least half way from tip of subapical tooth to tip of apical tooth.................. 4
- Mucronal basal spine short, at most slightly exceeding tip of subapical tooth...................................... 7
4 Eyes 3+3................................................................... wui Wang & Christiansen, 2000
- Eyes 1+1........................................................................................... 5
5 Abd. II with 5+5 central mac; Add. III with 2+2 central mac........................................ uniseta sp. nov.
- Abd. II with 3+3 central mac; Add. III with 1+1 central mac................................................... 6
6 Abd. I with 5+5 mac; Abd. IV with 5–6+5–6 mac.................................... sunae Pan, Zhang & Shi, 2012
- Abd. I with 6+6 mac; Abd. IV with 4+4 mac.................................... affluens Chen & Christiansen, 1993
7 Eyes 5+5........................................................................................... 8
- Eyes at most 4+4................................................................................... 10
8 Abd. III with 2+2 central mac.............................................. quinocula Chen & Christiansen, 1993
- Abd. III with 1+1 central mac........................................................................... 9
9 Body grey; labial chaeta R smooth; tenent hair on fore leg clavate............................... umesaoi Yosii, 1940
- Body white; labial chaeta R ciliate; tenent hair on fore leg pointed......................... gei Pan, Zhang & Shi, 2012
10 Eyes 4+4............................................................... qufuensis Chen & Christiansen, 1993
- Eyes at most 3+3.................................................................................... 11
11 Eyes 3+3.......................................................................................... 12
- Eyes at most 2+2..................................................................................... 13
12 Abd. III with 1+1 central mac........................................................ straminea (Folsom, 1899)
- Abd. III with 2+2 central mac................................................ triocula Chen & Christiansen, 1993
13 Tenent hairs pointed................................................................................. 14
- Tenent hairs clavate................................................................................... 15
14 Abd. IV with 3+3 central mac; smooth part of dens 2.0 of mucro length.............. pauciseta Qu, Zhang & Chen, 2010
- Abd. IV with 6+6 central mac; smooth part of dens 1.2 of mucro length......................... sacellum Zhang, 2013
15 Tenent hair obviously longer than unguiculus and subequal to inner edge of unguis............... monoculata Denis, 1929
- Tenent hair subequal to unguiculus and obviously shorter than inner edge of unguis................. gracilis Zhang, 2013
16 Eyes 3+3.......................................................................................... 17
- Eyes at most 2+2.................................................................................... 19
17 Abd. IV with 3+3 central mac.......................................................................... 18
- Abd. IV with more than 6+6 central mac...................................................... yui Zhang, 2013
18 Body pigmented; 4 sublobal hairs on maxillary outer lobe; Abd. I with 5+5 mac.... colorata Zhang, Qu & Deharveng, 2010
- Body yellow white; 3 sublobal hairs on maxillary outer lobe; Abd. I with 4+4 mac............. longisensilla Zhang, 2013
19 Eyes 2+2........................................................................................... 20
- Eyes 1+1.......................................................................................... 24
20 Mucronal basal spine long reaching at midway between two teeth.............................. curviseta Brook, 1882
- Mucronal basal spine short, at most slightly exceeding tip of subapical tooth..................................... 21
21 Tibiotarsus without rows of “smooth” differentiated chaetae................................................. 22
- Tibiotarsus with rows of apparently “smooth” differentiated chaetae........................................... 23
22 Two eyes arranged in a longitudinal row....................................... browni Chen & Christiansen, 1993
- Two eyes arranged in a transverse row........................................... transoculata Pan & Yuan, 2013
23 Two eyes separate from each other; Abd. IV with 7+7 central and 6+6 lateral mac...... plebeia Chen & Christiansen, 1993
- Two eyes close to each other; Abd. IV with 3+3 central and 5+5 lateral mac................. pseudobrowni Zhang, 2013
24 Labial chaeta r/m=0.8; Abd. IV with 4+4 central mac............................................. abietis sp. nov.
- Labial chaeta r/m=0.15; Abd. IV with 6+6 central mac........................… fuyanensis Chen & Christiansen, 1993
description: Published as part of Ding, Yin-Huan & Zhang, Feng, 2015, Contribution to the eyed Sinella from China: two new species and additional reports on nine known species (Collembola: Entomobryidae), pp. 474-490 in Zootaxa 3973 (3) on pages 488-489, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236330