Acerentomon fageticola Rusek, 1966

Galli, Loris, Capurro, Matteo & Torti, Carlo, 2011, Protura of Italy, with a key to species and their distribution, ZooKeys 146, pp. 19-67 : 26

Acerentomon fageticola Rusek, 1966

Distribution.

Central Europe.

Remarks.

Three specimens from Veneto (Cison, Treviso), and two from Liguria (Lavagna, Genoa) were identified by Prof. Nosek as Acerentomon fageticola and cited in a short note by Torti (1995a). These and some other similar specimens should be considered as individual variations of Acerentomon italicum : this hypothesis seems to be maintained by the coexistence in the same localities of individuals showing a continuum of diagnostic characters (foretarsal sensilla, chaetotaxy, pleural pectines) ranging from the Acerentomon fageticola to the Acerentomon italicum extremes, while we have not yet found sites where only “fageticola-type” specimens have been collected.

We hope that our current redescription of Acerentomon italicum could shed more light on the differences between this species and the related Acerentomon fageticola .

This species has been cited here and in the identification key only for exactness of information.