Allotrichotelura saevissima Eduardo, Fox, Solis & Bueno, 2009, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F.
name: Fox, G. P.
name: Solis, Daniel R.
name: Bueno, Odair C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Zygentoma
Nicoletiidae
Allotrichotelura
Allotrichotelura saevissima

description: Allotrichotelura saevissima sp. nov.   
 (Figs. 1-20)   
 Type material: Holotype female, BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Pedro do Rio, 22°20’32.64”S, 43°7’58.96”W, 730 m of altitude, 08/05/2006, within a fire ant (Solenopsis saevissima) nest, coll. E.G.P. Fox, (CEIS / UNESP). Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 1 female (MZUSP) 1 female (CZ-5276).   
 Description: Female: Body length: 3-3.2 mm; thorax length: 1.4 mm; thorax width: 1.4 mm; maximum measured length of antennae: 1.3 mm; cerci length: 0.9 mm; terminal filament short, always damaged. Hypodermal pigment absent; setae and macrochaetae hyaline.   
Head (Fig. 1) wider than long, the cephalic capsule with numerous thin short setae and with a few frontal acute macrochaetae. Antennae short, without peculiar features. Incisive and molar areas of mandible well developed (Fig. 2). Maxillae without remarkable features, the prostheca slightly longer than the apical tooth of lacinia, as long as the galea, which has only one reduced apical conule (Fig. 3). Maxillary palp delicate the distal article cylindrical and longer than the previous one, and with several apical sensilla (Figs. 4, 5). Labium as usual, the labial palp (Fig. 6) medium-size, its distal article ovoid, ca. 1.2 times longer than wide and with six typical apical papillae.  
Nota short and wide, with numerous irregular rows of minute thin setae, their posterior border almost straight (pronotum) to slightly concave (metanotum); only one very short, apically bifid macrochaeta, stronger though not longer than the usual setae, occurs on the anterior-lateral angle of pronotum (Fig. 7). Legs typical, tibias (Figs. 8, 9) ca 3 times longer than wide, the empodium simple and complete (Fig. 10).  
Urotergites I-VIII like the nota, with several thin short setae, more numerous on the infralateral area; one only stout macrochaeta present (Fig. 11), its robustness increasing from the anterior to the posterior segments; infralateral areas of urotergite IX poorly extended, as in Fig. 12. Urotergite X sub-trapezoidal (Fig. 13), much shorter than wide at base, its posterior notch obtuse, not especially depressed; 1+1 infralateral plus 1+1 shorter lateral macrochaetae on the posterior border and a few thin discal setae.  
Urosternite I almost glabrous with a few submedian setae, II with 1+1 lateral plus 1 median well delimited groups of setae (Fig. 14); abdominal sternites III-VII with abundant thin small setae, uniformly distributed, like the dorsal plates (Fig. 15). Four pairs of abdominal stylets, on segments VI-IX (Fig. 16); only pseudovesicles VII are present. Posterior border of urosternite VII clearly concave the subgenital plate wide and short, parabolic to almost triangular (Fig. 17). Coxites VIII and IX typical (Fig. 18); ovipositor spindle-shaped, clearly exceeding the apex of stylet IX; gonapophyses VIII and IX as in Figs. 19, 20 with ca 6 divisions.  
Terminal filaments short, without special features.  
Male unknown.  
 Etymology: The new species is named after to its known ant host species in Brazil, Solenopsis saevissima.
description: Published as part of Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F., Fox, G. P., Solis, Daniel R. & Bueno, Odair C., 2009, New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests, pp. 467-475 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (34) on page 474, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001, http://zenodo.org/record/13308405