Salina tocantinensis Oliveira¹ &amp; Cipola² &amp; Almeida¹ 2020, sp.n.
Creators: name: Oliveira, Fábio G. L.
name: Cipola, Nikolas G.
name: Almeida, Eduardo A. B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Paronellidae
Salina
Salina tocantinensis

description: <i>Salina tocantinensis</i>sp.n. Oliveira &amp; Cipola Figures 9H, 10H, 11H, 12H, 13H, 14A and D, 15G, 16H, 18 F-G, 19E ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/ 4829FD1A-0BBC-4436-8C9B-12D49CEE8D6D <i>Diagnosis</i> Body and legs with blue spots; Ant I with 4 mac; cephalic groove with 1 serrated mic, without smooth chaetae; Th II–Abd I with 3–4, 3–5, 1–3 central mac, respectively; Abd III with 6 lateral mac (<b>a7</b>, <b>am6</b>, <b>pm6</b>, <b>p6</b>, <b>p7i</b> and one unnamed); Abd IV with 8 central mac (<b>A3–5</b> absent) and lateral 10 mac; collophore with 7 anterior, 2 posterior and 13 lateral flap chaetae; trochanteral organ with 13 spine-like chaetae; manubrial plate with 2 chaetae. <i>Type material</i> Holotype &amp;female; on slide (COLLE 047/INPA): Brazil, Tocantins, Palmas municipality, Taquaruçu district, ecological farm of “Taquaruçu”, 10°15’S, 48°08’W, Cerrado biome, 650 m, 13-20.v.2013, Pitfall-trap, AS Lopes coll. Paratypes on slides (COLLE 047A-J/ INPA): 1 &amp;male;, 6 &amp;female; and 3 juveniles, same data as holotype. <i>Description</i> Total length (head + trunk) of holotype 1.46 mm. Specimens pale white with dark blue pigments on Ant I–III distally, inner side of Ant I, anterior and lateral head; lateral side of Th II to Abd V; inner side of legs with a distal spot on femora and two spots in tibiotarsi (one basal and one subapical). Eye patches black (Figure 9H). Head. Ant I dorsally with 4 mac and 7 basal spiny smooth mic (Figure 10H). Posterior labial chaetotaxy series ‘CG’ with 8 ciliate chaetae (<b>CG 1-3</b>, <b>CG 5–7e</b>) and 1 serrated mic (<b>CG 4</b>); series ‘PLM’ with 2 ciliate chaetae (<b>PLM 1–2</b>); series ‘PLE’ with 2 ciliate chaetae (<b>PLE 1–2</b>); lateral side with about 28 ciliate chaetae (Figure 11H). Dorsal chaetotaxy. Th II with 1 ‘m’ mac (<b>m7</b>), and 3–4 ‘p’ mac (<b>p1–4</b>), <b>p2</b> present or absent. Th III with 1 ‘m’ mac (<b>m7</b>), and 3–6 ‘p’ mac (<b>p1i</b>, <b>p1–3</b>, <b>p5</b>), <b>p1</b>, <b>p2a</b> and <b>p5</b> present or absent (Figure 12H). Abd I with 1–3 ‘p’ mac (<b>m3–5</b>), <b>m3</b> and <b>m5</b> present or absent (Figure 13H). Abd III with 1 ‘a’ mac (<b>a7</b>), 2 ‘m’ mac (<b>am6</b>, <b>pm6</b>), and 3 ‘p’ mac (<b>p6</b>, <b>p7i</b> and one unnamed) (similar to <i>S. brasiliana</i> <b>sp.n.</b>, Figure 14A). Abd IV with 2 ‘A’ mac (<b>A1</b>, <b>A6</b>); 1 ‘Ae’ mac (<b>Ae1</b>); 3 ‘B’ mac (<b>B3–5</b>); 1 ‘Be’ mac (<b>Be1</b>); 1 ‘C’ mac (<b>C1)</b>; 4 ‘E’ mac (<b>E1-4</b>); 4 ‘F’ mac (<b>F1–F3p</b>); 2 ‘Fe’ mac (<b>Fe1–3</b>); posterior side with 3 sens type IV (<b>ps</b> and two unnamed) (similar to <i>S. brasiliana</i> <b>sp.n.</b>, Figure 14D). Abd V with 3 ‘a’ mac (<b>a3</b>, <b>a5–6</b>); 3 ‘m’ mac (<b>m2–3</b>, <b>m5</b>); and 2 ‘p’ mac (<b>p4–5</b>) (Figure 15G). Appendages. Trochanteral organ with 13 smooth spine-like chaetae (Figure 16H). Collophore anterior side with 2 subapical mac of equal length, 1 smaller median mes, and 4 proximal smooth mic; posterior side with 1 apical and 1 subapical smooth chaetae; lateral flap formula 4(s), 4(m), 5(i) smooth chaetae, 2 inferior larger (Figures 18 F- G). Manubrial plate with 3 chaetae (Figure 19C). Mucro with 3–4 teeth (<b>d1</b>, <b>ap</b>, <b>v1-2</b>), <b>v2</b> teeth present or absent (Figure 19E). <i>Etymology</i> The species name refers to the native indigenous name of the type locality, Tocantins State (from tupi: <i>tocantinensis</i>). <i>Remarks</i> See remarks of <i>S. maculipenis</i> <b>sp.n.</b> For additional information, refer to Table 2.
description: Published as part of <i>Oliveira, Fábio G. L., Cipola, Nikolas G. &amp; Almeida, Eduardo A. B., 2020, Systematics and biogeography of Salina MacGillivray (Collembola: Entomobryoidea), with emphasis on the species groups in the New World, pp. 81-138 in Insect Systematics &amp; Evolution 51</i> on pages 122-124, DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002201, http://zenodo.org/record/3786728