Palmanura klompeni Arango & Palacios-Vargas & Vázquez & Marín 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Arango, Angela
name: Palacios-Vargas, José G.
name: Vázquez, Magdalena
name: Marín, Elida P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Palmanura
Palmanura klompeni

description: Palmanura klompeni Palacios-Vargas & Vázquez sp. nov.
FIgS 1–8, TAbS 1–2
Type material. HOLOTyPE: fEMALE ON SLIdE. PARATyPES: 3 fEMALES, ONE MALE, ANd ONE jUvENILE ON SLIdES.
Type locality: BELIZE, CAyO MOPAN RIvER, CLOSE TO CREEk. N 17° 05' 10.7'' W 89° 08' 01.3'', Ex LITTER, 08.III.2015, LEg. M. VázqUEz, H. KLOMPEN, C. ChARgOy.
Description. LENgTh (N = 6) 818 µM (RANgE 700–1300 µM). COLOR whITE. GRANULATIONS STRONg, AbOUT hALf ThE SIzE Of ONE EyE. TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. FOUR kINdS Of bOdy SETAE, PALMATE MAcROSETAE (PM) (15–23 µM), bARbULATE MAcROSETAE (BM) (20 µM), MIcROSETAE (M) (17 µM), bESIdES ThE SENSORIAL SETAE (SS) (16 µM). ANT I wITh SEvEN SETAE, ThREE (SETAE 2, 3, 4) ARE ELONgATE PALMATE MAcROSETAE (FIgS 1, 5), ANT II wITh 11 SMOOTh SETAE. ANT III SENSORIAL ORgAN wITh TwO gLObULAR SENSILLA IN A cUTIcULAR fOLd, ANd TwO gUARd SENSILLA. S.g.v STRONgLy cURvEd SINUOSE (FIg. 2), ONE vENTRAL MIcROSENSILLUM. ANT IV AS TyPIcAL fOR ThE gENUS wITh SENSILLA S7 hyPERTROfIEd (FIgS 1, 2, 5). EyES 2 + 2 wITh bLAck PIgMENT. LAbRUM wITh 2/0, 4 SETAE. MANdIbLES wITh 3 TEETh. MAxILLAE STyLIfORM. LAbIUM wITh SETAE A–G ORdINARy, ONE ORgANITE X ANd TwO PAIRS Of POSTLAbIAL SETAE. HEAd wITh CL, Af, Oc, DI, DE, DL ANd L + Sc TUbERcLES wELL dEvELOPEd. HEAd chEATOTAxy AS IN FIgS 3, 7 ANd IN TAb. 1.
LEgS chAETOTAxy fROM I TO III, cOxAE 3, 7, 8; TROchANTERS 5, 5, 5; fEMORA 11, 11, 10; TIbIOTARSI 18, 18, 17, wIThOUT TENENT hAIRS. ThORAcIc ANd AbdOMINAL chAETOTAxy AS FIgS 3–4, 6–8. ThE TOTAL bOdy chAETOTAxy by dEMITERgITE IS ShOwN IN TAb. 2. VENTRAL TUbE wITh 4 + 4 SETAE. FURcAL vESTIgE wITh 3 MIcROSETAE ANd NO SETOLAE. VENTROLATERAL AREAS Of Abd II ANd III wITh ThREE SETAE, IV ANd V wITh 4 SETAE ANd ONE SETA RESPEcTIvELy. FEMALE gENITAL PLATE wITh 3 + 3 PREgENITAL, 6–10 cIRcUMgENITAL ANd 2 EUgENITAL SETAE, ANAL vALvES wITh 11 SETAE ANd 2 SETOLAE. MALE gENITAL PLATE wITh 3 + 3 PREgENITAL, 15 cIRcUMgENITAL ANd 4 + 4 EUgENITAL SETAE.
Etymology. SPEcIES dEdIcATEd TO DR. HANS KLOMPEN (OhIO STATE UNIvERSITy, USA) fOR hIS cONTRIbUTIONS TO ThE RESEARch ON SOIL fAUNA.
Remarks. Palmanura klompeni sp. nov. RESEMbLES TO P. matildae ANd P. pascuali, by ITS cEPhALIc chAETOTAxy, bEcAUSE ALL Of ThEM LAck cEPhALIc SETAE A ANd G. AMONg ThE SPEcIES Of Palmanura, ThERE IS A gROUP whIch LAckS ThE cEPhALIc SETA A, P. guilleni, P. matildae ANd P. pascuali, ANd ShARE ThIS chARAcTER wITh ThE NEw SPEcIES, ANd ThEy ALSO
hAvE ThE SAME NUMbER Of SETAE ON ThORAcIc SEgMENTS, ExcEPT ThE LAST ONE whIch hAS A STRONg REdUcTION. IN AddITION, Abd IV TUbERcLE DE IS fUSEd TO DL wITh ONLy TwO PALMATE SETAE AN IMPORTANT dIffERENcE IN ThE NEw SPEcIES. FOR cOMPARISON Of ThE MOST IMPORTANT chARAcTERS REfER TO TAb. 13.
description: Published as part of Arango, Angela, Palacios-Vargas, José G., Vázquez, Magdalena & Marín, Elida P., 2018, Revision of the genus Palmanura Cassagnau, 1983 (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae: Sensillanurini), pp. 128-154 in Zootaxa 4483 (1) on pages 129-131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.1.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1437545