Neanura MacGillivray 1893
Creators: name: Smolis, Adrian
name: Deharveng, Louis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Entognatha
Collembola
Neanuridae
Neanura

description: KEY TO THE SPECIES OF NEANURA MACGILLIVRAY, 1893   
1. Chaeta L’ on Abd. V present (Fig. 5A), chaeta Ocp on head absent (Fig. 5B), tubercle (L + Dl) on head consist of two parts (L + 1/2Dl) and Dl’ (Fig. 5B)................................................................................................... 2  
— Chaeta L’ on Abd. V absent (Fig. 2A), chaeta Ocp on head present (Fig. 5E), tubercle (L + Dl) on head not divided (Fig. 5E)......................................................................................................................................... 3  
 2. Body whitish to pale bluish, tubercles De of Th. II-III with 2 + S and 3 + S chaetae respectively (Fig. 5C).................................................................................................................................. N. pallida Deharveng, 1979   
 — Body dark bluish, tubercles De of Th. II-III with 3 + S and 4 + S chaetae respectively (Fig. 5D)......................................................................................................................................................... N. minuta Gisin, 1963   
3. Chaetae Oca, C, E and sometimes D on head absent (Fig. 1B)................................................................... 4  
— Chaetae Oca, D and often C and E on head present (Fig. 5E)..................................................................... 5  
 4. Labrum non ogival (Fig. 1E), chaeta Di3 on Abd. V absent (Fig. 2B)................................. N. judithae n. sp.   
 — Labrum ogival (Fig. 5F), chaeta Di3 on Abd. V present (Fig. 5G)................................ N. parva Rusek, 1963   
 5. Chaetae C, D and E on head present, chaetae De3 of Abd. I-III free (Fig. 6A), chaeta L2 of Th. III shorter than L3 (Fig. 6B), group Vei of Abd. IV with three chaetae (Fig. 6D)............... N. muscorum* (Templeton, 1835)   
— Chaetae De3 of Abd. I–III fused with tubercles De (Fig. 6F), chaeta L2 of Th. III longer than L3 (Fig. 6C), group Vei on Abd. IV with two chaetae....................................................................................................... 6  
 6. Tubercles Di and De of Th. I fused (Fig. 6E).................................................................. N. alba Törne, 1956   
— Tubercles Di and De of Th. I separate (Fig. 6C).......................................................................................... 7  
 7. Chaeta Di3 of Abd. V present (Fig. 6 H), tubercles Di of Abd. V fused (Fig. 6H) or sometimes separate.................................................................................................................................. N. pseudoparva Rusek, 1963   
 — Chaeta Di3 of Abd. V absent (Fig. 6G), tubercles Di of Abd. V always separate (Fig. 6G)............................................................................................................................. N. moldavica Buşmachiu & Deharveng, 2008
description: Published as part of Smolis, Adrian & Deharveng, Louis, 2017, Neanura judithae n. sp. from Polish Carpathians, with an updated and illustrated key to all species of the genus Neanura MacGillivray, 1893 (Collembola: Neanuridae), pp. 37-47 in Zoosystema 39 (1) on page 46, DOI: 10.5252/z2017n1a5, http://zenodo.org/record/4578513