Lepidocyrtinus andevo Cipola & Morais & Bellini 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Cipola, Nikolas Gioia
name: Morais, José Wellington De
name: Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Entomobryidae
Lepidocyrtinus
Lepidocyrtinus andevo

description: Lepidocyrtinus andevo sp. nov. Cipola & Bellini
Figs 55, 61–66, Tables 1 and 5
Type Material. Holotype female on slide (54085/ CAS): Madagascar, Toamasina, Ankerana municipality, 18°24’23”S, 048°48’09”E (Fig. 55), Montane forest, 1108 m, 19-24.i.2012, Malaise trap, BL Fisher coll. 15 paratypes: 3 males, 4 females and 1 juvenile on slides and 5 specimens in alcohol (54085/ CAS); 1 male and 1 female on slides (54085/ CAS donated to INPA-CLL 000030), same data as holotype.
Diagnosis. Body with dark blue pigments all over Ant I–IV, Th II laterally and femur I–III (Fig. 61); head mac A0, A2–3, A5, M1–2, S0–3 and S5–6 present; prelabral chaetae smooth; labial papilla E with l.p. conical and reduced (Figs 62 D–F); basolateral and basomedian labial fields with chaetae R (smaller than the others), L1–2 ciliated and e smooth; Th II projected anteriorly and with 6–7 anterior, 8 median (m1ip, m4–4p present, m4i mac absent) and 9–11 posterior mac (p2ep absent, p3 as mac); Th III–Abd II with 9–10, 2–4, 3–4 central mac respectively; Abd IV with 10–12 central mac and 14–16 lateral mac (Figs 63, 64B); unguis a.t. absent; unguiculus pe lamella smooth and with a small proximal tooth (Fig. 65E); collophore anteriorly with 9 spine-like chaetae and 4 ciliated chaetae apically acuminate, posteriorly with 10 spines, smooth chaeta present (Fig. 66A); manubrium ventrally with 0/4 subapical chaetae; manubrial plate with 2 blunt mac abruptly acuminate at the apex; dens with 1–12 blunt mac, 3 apically bullet-like and up to 9 abruptly acuminate at the apex (Figs 66 B–C).
Description. Total length (head + trunk) of specimens 3.97–5.10 (n=4), holotype 5.10 mm. Specimens pale white with dark blue pigment on Ant I–IV, lateral Th II, anterior coxa III, trochanter and femur completely, lighter on tibiotarsus; eyepatches black (Fig. 61). Scales present on Ant I to proximal one quarter of Ant IV, dorsal and ven-tral head, dorsal thorax and abdomen, legs (except empodia), anterior and posterior collophore, ventral and dorsal manubrium and dens ventrally.
Head. Antennae subequal to trunk length (Fig. 61); ratio antennae: trunk = 1: 0.96–1.14 (n=4), holotype 1: 0.98; antennal segments ratio as I: II: III: IV = 1: 1.21–1.37: 1.18–1.47: 2.77–3.48, holotype 1: 1.23: 1.18: 2.77. Ant IV annulated on distal three fourths, with apical bulb apically unilobed, bilobed or trilobed.Ant III not annulated, apical organ with 2 elongated rods, 3 spiny guard sens, s-blunt sens of different sizes and ciliated chaetae (Fig. 62A). Ant I dorsally with 4 median mac surrounded by ciliated guard mic and 13 smooth mic at the base, without spines (Fig. 62B). Eyes A and B larger, G and H smaller, others subequal, and with 5 ‘IO’ chaetae; head dorsal macrochaetotaxy with 15–16 An, 4 A, 3 M, 7 S and 1 Ps mac (Fig. 62F). Clypeal formula with 6 (l12, l1–2), 15 (ft), 2 (pf1) ciliated chaetae, l1 larger than the others and apically acuminate, pf0 absent, others subequal (Fig. 62C). Prelabral chaetae smooth, sometimes bifurcated. Labral p0 chaeta sometimes with median filament, p1 larger than the others (Fig. 62D). Labral papillae with two rounded projections, outer papillae absent. Maxillary palp with smooth t.a. and b.c. weakly ciliated, thicker and 1.39 longer than the t.a. Labial papilla E with l.p. conical and reduced (Fig. 62E). Basolateral and basomedian labial fields with chaetae M1–2, R (smaller than the others), L1–2 ciliated, e smooth. Ventral head with about 13 ciliated chaetae, postlabial formula with 4 (G1–4), 3 (H2–4), 4 (J1–4) chaetae, H3 sometimes thin and smaller, and 1 b.c. larger than the others surrounding the cephalic groove (Fig. 62G).
Thorax chaetotaxy (Fig. 63 A–B). Th II projected anteriorly, a, m and p series with 6–7, 8 and 9–11 mac, respectively, and about 20 secondary psp. Th III a, m and p series with 5–6, 1 and 7 mac, respectively, and about 10 secondary psp. Ratio Th II: III = 2.93–1.95: 1 (n=4), holotype 2.93: 1.
Abdomen chaetotaxy (Figs 63 C–D, 64A–C). Abd I a, m and p series with 0–1, 2–3 and 0 mac, respectively, and about 5 secondary psp. Abd II a, m and p series with 1, 3–4 and 0 mac, respectively, and about 11 secondary psp. Abd III a, m and p series with 0, 3 and 1 mac, respectively, and about 16 secondary psp. Abd IV with 10–12 central mac on A–T series and 14–16 lateral mac on E–Fe series; about 11 secondary psp, at least 6 posterior sens (ps type I, others type II) and 5 posterior mes. Abd V a, m and p series with 1, 4 and 6 mac, respectively. Ratio Abd III: IV = 1: 6.65–4.78 (n= 4), holotype 1: 4.78.
Legs. Subcoxa I with 6 chaetae on a row, 12 anterior chaetae and 2 psp; subcoxa II with an anterior row of 17 chaetae, posterior row of 10 chaetae and 4 psp; subcoxa III with one row of 13 chaetae and 2 posterior psp (Fig. 65 A–C). Trochanteral organ with about 68 spine-like chaetae (Fig. 65D). Tibiotarsus III sometimes subdivided on distal two thirds, outer side with 3 proximal large chaetae apically acuminate, inner side with 7 mac weakly ciliated. Unguis with 3 inner teeth, b.t. smaller than m.t., a.t. absent. Unguiculus with all lamellae smooth and acuminate, except pe with a small proximal tooth; ratio unguis: unguiculus = 1: 0.49. Tibiotarsal smooth chaeta 1.12 larger than unguiculus and tenent hair 0.51 smaller than unguis outer edge (Fig. 65E).
Collophore. Anterior side with 20 chaetae, 9 proximal spine-like chaetae, 1 thin ciliated chaeta, 4 ciliated chaetae apically acuminate and 6 mac distally; posterior side with 28 chaetae (3 unpaired), 10 spines, 17 thin ciliated chaetae widely distributed and 1 smooth chaetae distally; lateral flap with about 88 chaetae, 11 smooth and 77 ciliated (Fig. 66A).
Furcula. Manubrium ventral formula with 0, 0, 0, 0/4 (subapical), 14–16 (apical) ciliated chaetae plus approximately 35 elongated apical scales per side (Fig. 66B); manubrial plate with 2–3 blunt mac ciliated abruptly acumi-nate at apex, 17 ciliated chaetae of different sizes and 2 psp. Dorsal dens with one row of 1–12 blunt mac weakly ciliated, 3 proximal apically bullet-like and up to 9 abruptly acuminate at the apex, holotype with 3+9 (Fig. 66C).
Etymology. The epithet “andevo” is proposed to honor the black slaves that constituted about a third of the Merina society of Madagascar during the 19th century.
Remarks. Lepidocyrtinus andevo sp. nov. resembles other species from Madagascar (Table 5). See the comparison among them in the remarks of L. iegoi sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Morais, José Wellington De & Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2020, Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species, pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 4898 (1) on pages 77-84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4898.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4392515