Trogolaphysa grassei (Delamare Debouteville, 1952) Nguyen & Soto-Adames, 2018

Nguyen, Minh & Soto-Adames, Felipe N., 2018, Annotated checklist of Afrotropical Trogolaphysa Mills, 1938 (Hexapoda: Collembola: Paronellidae) and description of a new species from Madagascar, Zoosystema 40 (10), pp. 179-196 : 183

Trogolaphysa grassei (Delamare Debouteville, 1952) n. comb.

Paronella grassei Delamare Debouteville, 1952: 241 , 242, figs 4-7 (Le Banco, Ivory Coast).

Paronella grassei Delamare Debouteville – 1951b: 63 , fig. 16, nomen nudum.

Dicranocentruga grassei – Mitra 2002c: 114.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Le Banco, Ivory Coast.

DISTRIBUTION. — Ivory Coast.

REMARKS

Delamare Debouteville (1951b) first published a plate showing diagnostic characters for this species and included the combination Paronella sp. in the caption to the figure. However, this publication did not include a description of the species. Delamare Debouteville (1952) published the 1951b plate and caption again, but this time he included a formal description. Following the ICZN code, the absence of a description and diagnosis renders the 1951b combination a nomen nudum and the correct authority citation is P. grassei Delamare Debouteville, 1952 .

This species is placed in Trogolaphysa based on the absence of manubrial spines and on the shape of the mucro, which is typical for Trogolaphysa species with 3-teethed mucro.

This species has a white head and light blue pigment on legs and body flanks; tenent hair relatively short and weakly spatulate ( Fig. 5A ); unguis with three inner teeth; unguiculus lanceolate; dens with two rows of spines; and mucro with 3 teeth.

This is the only African species with a three-toothed mucro.

Figures

FIG. 5. — A, Trogolaphysa grassei (Delamare Debouteville, 1952) n. comb.hind claw form Delamare-Deboutteville (1952);B, T. ghesquierei (Marlier,1945) n. comb. hind claw from Marlier (1945);C, T. fuelleborni n. comb.hind claw from Börner (1903); D, T.monomaculata, hind claw from Barra (1969);E, L. flava, hind claw from Carpenter (1916); F, T. monomaculata, mucro from Barra (1969); G, T. vivieni, mucro from Barra (1969); H, T. beguei (Delamare Debouteville, 1951) n. comb, hind claw complex, modified from Delamare Deboutteville (1951a); I, T. lamottei (Delamare Debouteville,1950) n. comb.habitus, modified from Delamare Deboutteville (1950b); J, T. beguei n. comb. habitus, modified from Delamare Deboutteville (1951a).