Caribesella impudica ( Escherich, 1905 ) Molero-Baltanás & Gaju-Ricart & Smith, 2024

Molero-Baltanás, Rafael, Gaju-Ricart, Miquel & Smith, Graeme B., 2024, New insights in the taxonomy of Lepismatidae (Insecta, Zygentoma) with an updated key to genera and future challenges, European Journal of Taxonomy 943 (1), pp. 80-126 : 107-108

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2587

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D991EEB1-5794-46FB-960A-A2A605B50F4D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12635006

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D11A22-FFC7-F75B-FE24-6BD82145AFB6

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Plazi

scientific name

Caribesella impudica ( Escherich, 1905 )
status

comb. nov.

Caribesella impudica ( Escherich, 1905) comb. nov.

Figs 7B View Fig , 9A View Fig , 10B View Fig , 11A View Fig , 13A View Fig

Acrotelsa impudica Escherich, 1905: 112 [holotype female, Santa Marta, Colombia (ZMA)].

Stylifera impudica – Wygodzinsky 1959a: 39 [supplementary description based on specimens from Venezuela (Paraguaná), Aruba, Curaçao, Little Curaçao (as Klein Curaçao), Bonaire, Margarita, Los Frailes, Los Testigos, Trinidad (ZMA)].

Stylifera (Acrotelsella) impudica – Paclt 1966: 156 [supplementary description based on intercepted quarantine material from Venezuela or Colombia and from a boat on the Pacific (ZMH)].

Acrotelsella impudica – Mendes 1986c: 334 [treated Acrotelsella as a genus independent of Stylifera View in CoL , first published use of combination].

Material examined

VENEZUELA • 10 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ (3 ♂♂ and 3 ♀♀ mounted on slides, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ mounted for SEM study, remaining specimens preserved in 70% alcohol); Monagas State, Uverito Forest ; 8°39′ N, 62°37′ W; 15 Aug. 1996; C. Bach leg.; pitfall traps in a plantation of Pinus caribea formerly occupied by a savanna; UCO Z2561 , Z2565 GoogleMaps .

Remarks

Most of the descriptive details of this species were provided by Wygodzinsky (1959a) as Stylifera impudica , except for some of the new characters described here for the diagnosis of the new genus which include the clypeal tufts, trichobothrial areas, coxal combs of macrochaetae, pattern and distribution of scales on appendages, and pretarsal microtrichia. Dorsal scales are illustrated in Fig. 19A–B View Fig and scales of different appendages in Fig. 19C–F View Fig . The scales of the coxae are rounded, but not orbicular (i.e., with the basal part not surrounding the insertion), with a finely denticulate apical margin. Femoral scales are similar in shape to coxal scales, but slightly smaller and apically narrower. Tibial scales are narrower and smaller than those of the femora. Scales covering styli are even smaller, with their apical margin more denticulate. Coxal combs have 3–6 macrochaetae, some of them as long as half the width of the coxa. Details of abdominal chaetotaxy are presented in Table 1 View Table 1 , although most of them do not represent an increase of the variability given by Wygodzinsky.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Zygentoma

Family

Lepismatidae

Genus

Caribesella

Loc

Caribesella impudica ( Escherich, 1905 )

Molero-Baltanás, Rafael, Gaju-Ricart, Miquel & Smith, Graeme B. 2024
2024
Loc

Acrotelsella impudica

Mendes L. F. 1986: 334
1986
Loc

Stylifera (Acrotelsella) impudica

Paclt J. 1966: 156
1966
Loc

Stylifera impudica

Wygodzinsky P. 1959: 39
1959
Loc

Acrotelsa impudica

Escherich K. 1905: 112
1905
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