Paralobella Cassagnau & Deharveng 1984
Creators: name: Kasai, Hiro
name: Hayasaka, Daisuke
name: Sawahata, Takuo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Poduromorpha
Neanuridae
Paralobella

description: Key to Paralobella modified from Jiang et al. (2018)
1 Chaeta O of tubercle Fr absent.......................................................................... 2
- Chaeta O of tubercle Fr present.......................................................................... 6
2 Tubercle Dl of Th. II–III with 5 (4+s) chaetae (besides of ms)....................... P. erawan (Yosii, 1976) (Thailand)
- Tubercle Dl of Th. II–III with 4 (3+s) chaetae (besides of ms).................................................. 3
3 Tubercle Di of Th. II–III only with 1 chaeta, tubercle Oc on head only with Ocm chaeta................................................................................................... P. selangorica (Yosii, 1976) (Malasia)
- Tubercle Di of Th. II–III with 2–3 chaetae, tubercle Oc on head with 2–3 chaetae.................................. 4
4 Tubercle Di of Th. II–III with 2 chaetae..................................... P. penangensis (Yosii, 1976) (Malasia)
- Tubercle Di of Th. II–III with 3 chaetae................................................................... 5
5 Abd. I–III: tubercle De with 5 (4+s) chaetae, tubercle Dl with 3 chaetae; mandible complicated, totally with 16 teeth in two rows.................................................................... P. apsala (Yosii, 1976) (Thailand)
- Abd. I–III: tubercle De with 4 (3+s) chaetae, tubercle Dl with 2 chaetae; mandible relatively simple, with 5 or 6 teeth in one row................................................................ P. kinabaluensis (Yoshii, 1981) (Malasia)
6 Tubercle De of Th. II–III with 4 (3+s) chaetae, VT with 3+3 chaetae................ P. sabahna (Yoshii, 1981) (Malasia)
- Tubercle De of Th. II–III with 5 (4+s) chaetae, VT with 4(5)+4(5) chaetae........................................ 7
7 Tubercle Di, De, DL of Th. I respectively with 2, 2, 1 chaetae.................................................. 8
- Tubercle Di, De, DL of Th. I respectively with 1, 2, 1 chaetae.................................................. 9
8 Tubercle Dl of Th. II–III with 4 (3+s) chaetae, tubercle Dl of Abd. IV with 6 (5+s) chaetae............................................................................................ P. khaochongensis (Yosii, 1976) (Thailand)
- Tubercle Dl of Th. II–III with 5 (4+s) chaetae, tubercle Dl of Abd. IV with 3 (2+s) chaetae............................................................................................ P. paraperfusa (Gapud, 1968) (Philippines)
9 Tubercle De and Dl of Abd. V fused, body bicolor or tricolor..... P. orousseti Cassagnau & Deharveng, 1984 (Philippines)
- Tubercle De and Dl of Abd. V separate, body monocolor.................................................... 10
10 Mandible with 20 teeth............................................. P. palustri s Jiang, Luan & Yin, 2012 (China)
- Mandible with less than 8 teeth......................................................................... 11
11 Mandible with 3 teeth, body color yellow.......................................... P. kuchierabu sp. nov. (Japan)
- Mandible with 6 or 7 teeth, body color red................................................................ 12
12 Mandible with 6 teeth, tubercle L of Abd. II-III with 6 (5+s) chaetae..... P. breviseta Luo & Palacios-Vargas, 2016 (China)
- Mandible with 7 teeth, tubercle L of Abd. II-III with 4 (3+s) or 7 (6+s) chaetae................................... 13
13 Tubercle Di of Th. II–III with 2 chaetae, tubercle L of Abd. II-III with 4 (3+s) chaetae, mandibular basal tooth much larger than the second tooth......................................................... P. perfusa (Denis, 1934) (Indochina)
- Tubercle Di of Th. II–III with 3 chaetae, tubercle L of Abd. II-III with 7 (6+s) chaetae, mandibular basal tooth slightly larger than the second one............................................... P. tianmuna Jiang, Wang & Xia, 2018 (China)
description: Published as part of Kasai, Hiro, Hayasaka, Daisuke & Sawahata, Takuo, 2022, First report of the genera Paralobella and Blasconura (Collembola: Neanuridae Neanurinae) from Japan with the description of three new species, pp. 332-349 in Zootaxa 5168 (3) on pages 337-338, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5168.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/6882863