Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi, Cipola & Morais & Bellini, 2020

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 : 18

Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. Cipola & Bellini

Figs 2 , 12 , Tables 1 and 3

Seira (Lepidocyrtinus) annulicornis ; Yosii 1959: 10, figs 5A–H, South Africa, Cape Town, Table Mountain ( Fig. 2 ), not examined; Janion-Scheepers et al. 2015: 68, Africa South (catalog).

Diagnosis. Body pale white with violet pigments on Ant III–IV, Ant II and femur I–III distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 14 anterior, 7 median (m1ip absent, m4 and m4i present) and 11 posterior mac (p3 present); Th III–Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively ( Fig. 12A ); Abd IV with 17 central mac and 8 lateral mac ( Fig. 12B ); unguis a.t. present; unguiculus with all lamella acuminate and toothless ( Fig. 12C ); manubrial plate with 3 blunt mac; dens with 9–10 blunt mac apically nipple-like ( Fig. 12D ).

Etymology. It is named after Dr. Ryozo Yoshii (in memoriam), an important Collembola researcher.

Remarks. Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. resembles L. annulicornis in general morphology (see the remark sections of these species and Table 3).

Figures

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

FIGURE 12A–E. Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. (modified from Yosii 1959); A, chaetotaxy of Th II to Abd II (left side); B, chaetotaxy of Abd IV (left side); C, distal tibiotarsus and empodial complex III; D, chaetotaxy of the manubrial plate and proximal dens (dorso-lateral view); E, distal dens and mucro (lateral view).