Paronella
Creators: name: Nguyen, Minh
name: Soto-Adames, Felipe N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Paronellidae
Paronella

description: KEY TO AFRICAN SPECIES OF PARONELLA -LIKE FORMS HERE ASSIGNED TO TROGOLAPHYSA MILLS, 1938
1. Unguiculus truncate (Fig. 5H) .................................................................................................................... 2
— Unguiculus lanceolate (Figs 5 B-E) ............................................................................................................... 3
2. Metathorax to 2 nd abdominal segment uniformly dark blue (Fig. 5J); dens with inner row spines apically acuminate (Ivory Coast) ............................................................ T. beguei (Delamare Debouteville, 1951) n. comb.
— Mesothorax to 2 nd abdominal segment never uniformly dark blue; dens with inner row spines apically asymmetrically ciliate, brush-like (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Gabon) ............. T. penicillata (Schött, 1927) n. comb.
3. Mucro with 5 teeth (Fig. 5F) ....................................................................................................................... 4
— Mucro with 3-4 teeth (Figs 3C, D, 5G) ....................................................................................................... 5
4. Abdomen 4 medially with dark blue square; unguis with one paired inner tooth clearly larger than other, much larger than proximal unpaired tooth; Mucro with basal teeth more or less evenly distributed (Fig. 5F) (Gabon) .............................................................................................................. T. monomaculata (Barra, 1969)
— Abdomen 4 white, without marks; Unguis with paired inner teeth subequal, and not much larger than unpaired tooth; Mucro with basal teeth grouped on proximal end (Fig. 5G) (Gabon) .............. T. vivieni (Barra, 1969)
5. Mucro with 3 teeth; tenet hair relatively short in relation to unguiculus (Fig. 5A); Unguis with 3 inner teeth (Ivory Coast) .................................................................... T. grassei (Delamare Debouteville, 1952) n. comb.
— Mucro with 4 teeth; tenet hair normally long in relation to unguiculus (Fig. 5B); Unguis with 3-4 inner teeth .... 6
6. Unguis with 4 inner teeth ............................................................................................................................ 7
— Unguis with 3 inner teeth .......................................................................................................................... 10
7. Antennomere 1 white, antennomeres 2-4 uniformly dark blue (Fig. 5I); femora white, tibiotarsi blue (Guinea) ........................................................................ T. lamottei (Delamare Debouteville, 1950) n. comb.
— Antennomeres 1-2 white/yellow or light blue, antennomeres 3-4 darker; legs with all segments blue, brown or yellow .......................................................................................................................................................... 8
8. Unguis with all teeth inserted on distal half of inner edge (Fig. 5C) (Tanzania, Madagascar?) ......................... .......................................................................................................... T. fuelleborni (Börner, 1903) n. comb.
— Unguis with basal teeth inserted on basal half & unpaired teeth on distal half of inner edge (Fig. 5B) ......... 9
9. Body yellow (Republic of Congo) .................................................... T. ghesquierei (Marlier, 1945) n. comb.
— Body blue (Madagascar) .................................................................................................. T. judithnajtae n. sp.
10. Head macrochaetae A3 and Pa5 absent (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Ethiopia) ..................................................................................................... T. nigromaculata (Schött, 1903) n. comb.
— Head macrochaetae A3 and Pa5 present (Fig. 2A) ...................................................................................... 11
11. Antennae, legs and body uniformly white; eye patch with up to 9 chaetae; Setiform labral papillae present; Dens with 1 row of spines (Kenya) ................................................................. T. wahlgreni (Mitra, 2002) n. comb.
— Antennae and legs uniformly dark blue, body with a general blue tint; eye patch with up to 6 chaetae; Setiform labral papillae absent; Dens with 2 row of spines (Madagascar) ...................................... T. judithnajtae n. sp.
description: Published as part of Nguyen, Minh & Soto-Adames, Felipe N., 2018, Annotated checklist of Afrotropical Trogolaphysa Mills, 1938 (Hexapoda: Collembola: Paronellidae) and description of a new species from Madagascar, pp. 179-196 in Zoosystema 40 (10) on page 193, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2018v40a10, http://zenodo.org/record/3738229