Vitronura acuta Deharveng & Weiner, 1984

Jiang, Jigang & Xia, Hu, 2018, Two new species and a new record species of genus Vitronura (Collembola: Neanuridae) from East China, Zoological Systematics 43 (2), pp. 169-177 : 171-172

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11865/zs.201815

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459917

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scientific name

Vitronura acuta Deharveng & Weiner, 1984
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Diagnosis. V.acuta is characterized by mandible 4 teethed, maxilla hook-like, claw toothless, labium ogival, without x papilla. Its body tubercles and chaetotaxy are similar to V. zhejiangensis sp. nov. V. acuta is also similar to V. qingchengensis in body chaetotaxy and antennal structure. However, V. acuta is different from the latter by not having inner tooth on claw and having four-dentated mandible, while V. qingchengensis has an inner tooth on claw and five-dentated mandible. The differences among V. zhejiangensis sp. nov., V. acuta and V. giselae see the remarks of V.tianmua sp. nov.

Material examined. 2♀, on the Path of Longfengjian to Fairy Peak, Tianmu Mountains, Zhejiang, China (30º23'09"N, 119º26'07"E; elev. 1100–1500m), 25 July 2011, coll. Jigang Jiang (no. J2011072502) GoogleMaps .

Ecology. Under leave in the forest.

Remarks. The species is recorded in China for the first time.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Collembola

Order

Poduromorpha

Family

Neanuridae

Genus

Vitronura

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