Entomobrya kasprowiensis Furgoł, 2017, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Furgoł, Michał
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Entomobryidae
Entomobrya
Entomobrya kasprowiensis

description: Entomobrya kasprowiensis sp. nov.
Figs 8, 9, 14–17, 23–26, Tables 1, 4 Type material. Holotype, female on slide, 10 IX 2012. Poland, Kasprowy Wierch, N 49°13’50”, E 19°58’59”, a mountain in the Western Tatras in the Carpathians (South Poland), from soil under escarpment, among and under stones. Paratypes: 4 on slides and 69 specimens alc., same data as holotype. Deposited in the Department of Invertebrate Biology, Evolution and Conservation, University of Wrocław.
Additional material. 3 specimens on slides and 2 specimens alc. from the Połonina Wetlińska (24 IX 2012, N 49°08’58”, E 22°33’27”, tufts of grass near the ground level, Bieszczady Mountains, southeast Poland).
Description. Body length up to 1,4 mm excluding antennae. Body colour pale orange to greyish orange as in Fig 8.
Head. Eight ocelli, GH smaller than EF. Antennae length 595 µm (holotype), more than 2 times head's length, Ant IV with bilobed apical vesicle. Relative length of Ant I/II/III/IV = 1/1.9/1.9/2.5 (holotype). Labral papillae smooth (Fig. 23).
Body. Length ratio of Abd IV/III <4. Trochanteral organ as in Fig. 24. Claw with 4 internal teeth: paired at 56% and proximal unpaired at 76% from basis (holotype), with the most distal one minute; dorsal tooth intermediate between claw basis and internal pair of teeth. Unguiculus lanceolate, with smooth external edge on leg III. Tenent hair as in Fig. 25. Length of manubrium + dentes: 262 + 310 µm (holotype). Manubrial plate with 3 chaetae and 2 pseudopores (Fig. 26). Mucronal subapical tooth similar in size to the terminal one, mucronal spine present. Measurements of particular parts of a body in table 1.
Chaetotaxy. Simplified formula: 3-1-0-2-2/1-3/1-2/1-0-1/0-0-2(3)-2-2. Head chaetotaxy as in Fig 14. Thorax chaetotaxy (Fig. 15): Th II area T1 with 1 Mc (m 1), area T2 with 3 Mc (a 5, m 4 and m 4i)(in one specimen in area T1 there is one Mc and one m: 1+ 1m). Abdomen chaetotaxy (Figs 16–17): Abd II area A1 with 1 Mc (a 2) and area A2 with 2 Mc (m 3 and m 3e). Abd III areas A3 and A5 with only 1 Mc (a 1 and m 3 respectively).
Biology. This species was recorded mostly among and under stones, approximately at 1900 m asl (Tatra Mts) and in tufts of low vegetation at about 1000 m asl (Bieszczady Mts).
Discussion. Superficially, this new species is somewhat similar to E. marginata, but it lacks transversal stripes on the hind parts of some segments of a body. Twenty Palaearctic species have 1-0-1 Mc in areas A3, A4 and A5 of Abd III, but only eight have 1-2 Mc on Abd II (E. albocincta (Templeton, 1835), E. boneti Jordana & Baquero, 2006, E. germanica Jordana, Schulz & Baquero, 2011, E. marginata (Tullberg, 1871), E. pusilla Latzel, 1917, E. pyrenaica Cassagnau, 1964, E. schulzi Jordana & Baquero, 2011, and E. transversalis Baquero, Arbea & Jordana, 2010). Further identification is simple if we consider Th II. Only the new species has 1 Mc in area T1.
Etymology. The specific name is derived from the place, where this species was found for the first time–– Kasprowy Wierch, one of the peaks of the Tatra Mountains.
description: Published as part of Furgoł, Michał, 2017, Three new species of Entomobrya from Poland (Collembola, Entomobryidae), pp. 43-57 in Zootaxa 4238 (1) on pages 51-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/345003