Deuteraphorura
Creators: name: Fanciulli, Pietro Paolo
name: Loreti, Mara
name: Dallai, Romano
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Deuteraphorura

description: Key for the Italian species of Deuteraphorura (based on dorsal and ventral formula of pseudocelli)
1 Thoracic tergum I without pseudocelli ........................................................................................................................ 2
- Thoracic tergum I with 1+1 pseudocelli ..................................................................................................................... 9
2 Hind margin of the head with 3+3 pseudocelli ............................................................................................................ 3
- Hind margin of the head with 2+2 pseudocelli............................................................................................................ 4
3 Pseudocellar formula of abdominal sterna I–IV as 3212, Abd. tergum IVwith chaeta p4 ............... D. pseudobosnaria
- Pseudocellar formula of abdominal sterna I–IV as 1212, Abd. tergum IVwithout chaeta p4.................... D. apuanica
4 Abdominal tergum I with 5+5 pseudocelli .................................................................................................. D. spipolae
- Abdominal tergum I with 3+3 pseudocelli ................................................................................................................... 5
5 Abdominal tergum V with 3+3 pseudocelli................................................................................................................. 6
- Abdominal tergum V with 4+4 pseudocelli................................................................................................................. 7
6 Pseudocellar formula of abdominal sterna I–IV as 3212, PAO with 16–17 compound vesicles, body length 1,3–1,4 mm ................................................................................................................................................................ D. frasassi
- Pseudocellar formula of abdominal sterna I–IV as 2212, PAO with 18–20 compound vesicles, body length 1,8–2,5 mm .................................................................................................................................................................... D. banii
7 Head ventrally with 2+2 pseudocelli ............................................................................................................. D. ghidinii
- Head ventrally with 3+3 pseudocelli ........................................................................................................................... 8
8 Pseudocellar formula of Abd. sterna I–IV as 3212, body length 2,4–2,6 mm, PAO with 19–21 compound vesicles, Abd. tergum IV without Ca0 chaeta .......................................................................................... D. caprelleana sp. nov.
- Pseudocellar formula of Abd. sterna I–IV as 2212, body length 1,41–1,85 mm, PAO with 14–16 compound vesicles, Abd. tergum IV with Ca0 chaeta ...................................................................................................... D. pseudoghidinii
9 Abdominal tergum V with 3+3 pseudocelli............................................................................................................... 10
- Abdominal tergum V with 4+4 pseudocelli................................................................................................................ 12
10 Head ventrally with 2+2 pseudocelli ............................................................................................................ D. eduardi
- Head ventrally with 3+3 pseudocelli .......................................................................................................................... 11
11 Pseudocellar formula of Abd. sterna I–IV as 3222....................................................................................... D. silvaria
- Pseudocellar formula of Abd. sterna I–IV as 1212....................................................................... D. pseudoinsubraria
12 Head ventrally with 2+2 pseudocelli .......................................................................................................................... 13
- Head ventrally with 3+3 pseudocelli .......................................................................................................................... 14
13 Pseudocellar formula ventrally as 2/000/2212, PAO with 20 compound vesicles ................................ D. bergamaria
- Pseudocellar formula ventrally as 2/011/1212, PAO with 15 compound vesicles .................................. D. defensaria
14 Pseudocellar formula venytrally as 3/011/2212......................................................................................................... 15
- Pseudocellar formula ventrally as 3/011/3212........................................................................................ D. cebennaria
15 Posterior part of Abd. V with only one macrochaeta positioned laterally to the most lateral pseudocellus .................. ................................................................................................................................................................. D. imperfecta
- Posterior part of Abd. V with two macro-chaetae, one of them positioned between the medial pseudocelli, the other laterally to the most lateral one ..................................................................................................................... D. dunaria
description: Published as part of Fanciulli, Pietro Paolo, Loreti, Mara & Dallai, Romano, 2010, A new cave species of Deuteraphorura (Collembola: Onychiuridae) and redescription of four species of the genus from Italy, pp. 34-54 in Zootaxa 2609 on page 52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.197776