Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis (Börner, 1903) sensu Coates, 1968

Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Morais, José Wellington De & Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2020, Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species, Zootaxa 4898 (1), pp. 1-110 : 17-18

Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis (Börner, 1903) sensu Coates, 1968

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Lepidocyrtus (Lepidocyrtinus) annulicornis B̂rner, 1903: 154, Mozambique, Lake Malawi (as Nyassa See), not examined.

Pseudosira (Mesira) annulicornis ; B̂rner 1908: 56.

Lepidocyrtus annulicornis ; Womersley 1934: 463. Lepidocyrtinus (Mesira) annulicornis ; Denis 1935: 5, Mozambique, stations: Bas Sangadzé, Vila Pery, Nova Choupanga. Seira annulicornis ; Coates 1968: 449, figs 43-44, Mozambique and Africa South: Pongola and Pretoria. Coates 1970: 182,

South Africa, Kruger National Park (catalog). Jacquemart 1974: 7 (cited). Janion-Scheepers et al. 2015: 68, Africa South

(catalog).

Diagnosis. Body pale white with dark violet pigments on Ant I–IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 6 median (m1ip present) in m1–2 complex and 11 posterior mac (p3 absent); Th III–Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively ( Fig. 11A ); unguis a.t. present; unguiculus pe lamella serrated but toothless; manubrial plate with 2–3 blunt mac; dens with 4 blunt mac ( Fig. 11B ) (modified from B̂rner 1903; Coates 1968).

Remarks. The specimen of L. annulicornis described by Yosii (1959) from Cape Town does not show the same morphology of specimens from Mozambique (sensu B̂rner 1903; Denis 1935; Coates 1968) ( Fig. 2 ), and for this reason they are herein designated as L. ryozoi nom. nov. In this same sense the chaetotaxy description of Szeptycki (1979), as well as the interpretation by Soto-Adames (2008) of Seira annulicornis (locality not specified) also do not fit neither the description of Yosii (1959) or Coates (1968), and consequently should not be considered as identity of this species. Even so, L. annulicornis differs from these species by body with dark violet pigments on Ant I–IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally, while L. ryozoi nom. nov. has pigments on Ant III–IV, Ant II and tibiotarsus I–III distally (unknow in Szeptycki’s specimens). Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis differs in chaetotaxy by Th II with 6 median mac in m1–2 complex (5 in L. ryozoi and Szeptycki’s specimens) and posteriorly without p3 mac (present in L. ryozoi ). They also differ by Th III with p1i mac and p1i2 mac absent (opposite in L. ryozoi ), and dens with 4 blunt mac (9–10 in L. ryozoi ). Other differences among similar species to L. annulicornis are listed in Table 3.

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FIGURE 2. Map of Lepidocyrtinus species recorded from continental Africa analysed in this study, including the type locality (red star) of L. annulicornis.

FIGURE 11A–B. Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis (modified from Coates 1968); A, chaetotaxy of Th II to Abd II (left side); B, chaetotaxy of the manubrial plate and proximal dens (lateral view).