Alloscopus Borner 1906
Creators: name: Alviola, Marnelli S.
name: Lucañas, Cristian C.
name: Lit, Ireneo L.
name: Soto-Adames, Felipe N.
name: Jantarit, Sopark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Collembola
Entomobryomorpha
Orchesellidae
Alloscopus

description: Key to the world species of Alloscopus
Modified from Jantarit & Sangsiri (2020) and Zhang et al. (2020)
1 Mucro with a basal spine............................................................................... 2
- Mucro without a basal spine............................................................................ 3
2 Eyes 2+2; Abd. I with 2+2 mac.............................................. A. spinosus (Prabhoo, 1971) (India)
- Eyes 3+3; Abd. I with 3+3 mac........................................ A. strebeli Winter, 1966 (Peru and Ecuador)
3 Eyes absent......................................................................................... 4
- Eyes present........................................................................................ 11
4 Tibiotarsi I–II with smooth chaetae....................................................................... 5
- Tibiotarsi I–II without smooth chaetae.................................................................... 8
5 Th. II with 12+12 central mac........................................................................... 6
- Th. II with 10+10 central mac........................................................................... 7
6 Unguis without inner unpaired teeth......... A. deharvengi (Mari-Mutt, 1985) in Mari-Mutt (1985b) (Papua New Guinea)
- Unguis with inner unpaired teeth............................... A. liuae Zhang, 2020 in Zhang et al. (2020) (China)
7 Posterior face of ventral tube with 16 chaetae....................................................................... A. tetracanthus (Börner, 1906) (Australia, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia)
- Posterior face of ventral tube with 12 chaetae.......................... A. whitteni Jantarit & Sangsiri, 2020 (Thailand)
8 Ant. IV apical pin chaeta absent; Th. II with 11+11 mac................. A. namtip Jantarit & Sangsiri, 2020 (Thailand)
- Ant. IV apical pin chaeta present; Th. II with more than 11+11 mac............................................. 9
9 Th. II with 13+13 mac; Abd I without the ms................................... A. arborealis sp. nov. (Philippines)
- Th. II with 12+12 mac; Abd I with the ms................................................................ 10
10 Unguis with 1–2 inner unpaired teeth; manubrium with 4+4 smooth chaetae.................................................................................... A. thailandensis (Mari-Mutt, 1985) in Mari-Mutt (1985b) (Thailand)
- Unguis without inner unpaired teeth; manubrium with 3+3 smooth chaetae............................................................................................. A. bannaensis Zhang, 2020 in Zhang et al. (2020) (China)
11 Eyes 2+2; unguiculus without an outer tooth.................................. A. aspinosus (Prabhoo, 1971) (India)
- Eyes 1+1; unguiculus with an outer tooth................................................................. 12
12 Head mac Pa5 present................................................................................ 13
- Head mac Pa5 absent................................................................................. 14
13 Head mac A5 present and M3 absent; Abd. II with 1+1 lateral mac (m5); trochanteral organ with up to 25 spines; dens dorsally with a row with 5–14 spines................................................................................................. A. tenuicornis (Börner, 1906) (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Micronesia and Hawaii)
- Head mac A5 absent and M3 present; Abd. II without lateral mac; trochanteral organ with 30–40 spines; dens dorsally with two rows with 27–55 spines....................... A. multispinatus (Mari-Mutt, 1982) (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)
14 Head ‘M’ series with 1+1 mac (M1); Th. II–III with 13+13 and 7+7 mac, respectively; manubrium dorsally with 3+3 smooth chaetae....................................................... A. fallax Yoshii & Suhardjono, 1992 (Indonesia)
- Head ‘M’ series with 2+2 mac (M1–2); Th. II–III with 11+11 and 6+6 mac, respectively; manubrium dorsally with 4+4 or 5+5 smooth chaetae.................................... A. yosiius (Mari-Mutt, 1985) in Mari-Mutt (1985b) (Indonesia)
description: Published as part of Alviola, Marnelli S., Lucañas, Cristian C., Lit, Ireneo L., Soto-Adames, Felipe N. & Jantarit, Sopark, 2024, A new canopy-dwelling species of the genus Alloscopus Börner (Collembola: Orchesellidae: Heteromurinae) from Mt. Makiling, Philippines, pp. 281-295 in Zootaxa 5405 (2) on pages 293-294, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/10603474