Heteraphorura
Creators: name: Kaprus', Igor
name: Shayanmehr, Masoumeh
name: Kahrarian, Morteza
name: Lafooraki, Elham Yoosefi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Onychiuridae
Heteraphorura

description: Key to the Palearctic species of Heteraphorura
1. Vesicles in PAO simple, bi- or multilobed, located perpendicularly or obliquely to the long axis of the organ (euro-asiatic group after Arbea 2014)................................................................................2
- All vesicles in PAO granulated (Fig. 2) (oriental group after Arbea 2014).........................................5
2. Abd. terga I–III with 2+2 axial chaetae (m1 absent), claw without lateral teeth.....................................3
- Abd. terga I–III with 3+3 axial chaetae (m1 present) (Fig. 3), claw with lateral teeth (Fig. 4)..........................4
3. Pso formula dorsally: 20/011/11022, VT with 13–19 + 13–19 chaetae, MVO absent......................................................................................... H. orientalis (Martynova, 1976) (Russia: Eastern Siberia)
- Pso formula dorsally: 30/011/11023, VT with 7–8 + 7–8 chaetae, MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consists of 22–32 thick chaetae................................................... H. steineri (Arbea, 2014) (Italy: Apennine Mountains)
4. Empodial appendage length equals 2/3 of inner edge of claw, pso formula dorsally: 3(2)0/011/11022(3), MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consists of 20–40 thick chaetae.................................................................... H. variotuberculata (Stach, 1934) (Austria, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Italia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine)
- Empodial appendage very short, rudimental, 1/4 of inner edge of claw (do not extend to the denticle on claw), pso formula dorsally: 20/011/11023(2, 4), MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consists of 20–35 thick chaetae.................................................................. H. carpatica (Stach, 1954) (Eastern Carpathians: Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine)
5. Basis of antenna as a rule with 2 pso......................................................................6
- Basis of antenna with 3 pso..............................................................................8
6. Abd. terga I–III with 2+2 axial chaetae, pso formula dorsally: 20/011/11022(3), MVO absent............................................................................... H. pseudoseolagensis (Martynova, 1981) (Russia: Far East)
- Abd. terga I–III with 3+3 axial chaetae.....................................................................7
7. Pso formula dorsally: 2(3)0/011/11023(4), Abd. tergum VI with 2 median chaetae (a0 and p0), MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consisting of numerous short chaetae, dispersed at random....................... * H. japonica (Yosii, 1967) (Japan)
- Pso formula dorsally: 20/011/11023, Abd. tergum VI with 3 median chaetae (a0, m0 and p0) (Fig. 1), MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consisting of 25–40 thick chaetae, located closely together in integumentary pocket (Figs 6, 7& 8)............................................................................................. H. iranica sp. nov. (Iran)
8. AIIIO with 4 guard chaetae, pso formula dorsally: 3?/011/11113...........** H. conjungens (Börner, 1909) (Japan, China)
-. AIIIO with 5 guard chaetae..............................................................................9
9. Abd tergum VI with strong lateral conical granules forming integumentary papillae, Abd. terga I–III with 2+2 axial chaetae, pso formula dorsally: 30/011/11023........................ H. seolagensis (Lee, 1974) (South Korea, Russia: Far East)
- Granulation of Abd tergum VI without lateral integumentary papillae...........................................10
10. Pso formula dorsally 30/011/11023, submedian chaetae m1 on Abd tergum V are short, not reached to posterior margin of tergum (Fig. 1), MVO present on Abd. sternum IV, consists of 2+2 club-shaped, ciliated chetae, located on papillae..................................................................................... H. imadatei (Yosii, 1956) (Japan)
- Pso formula dorsally 30/011/1101(0)2(1), submedian chaetae m1 on Abd. tergum V are long, distinctly reached to posterior margin of tergum, MVO unknown................................. H. longisetosa (Lee & Park, 1986) (South Korea)
description: Published as part of Kaprus', Igor, Shayanmehr, Masoumeh, Kahrarian, Morteza & Lafooraki, Elham Yoosefi, 2017, Three new species of Onychiuridae Lubbock, 1871 (Collembola, Poduromorpha) from Iran, pp. 335-346 in Zootaxa 4291 (2) on pages 338-339, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/829655