Mesogastrura Bonet, 1930

Chang, Gyu-Dong, Kim, Sun-Sook & Park, Kyung-Hwa, 2022, One new species and one new record for the genus Mesogastrura (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from Korean caves, with DNA barcodes, Zootaxa 5222 (4), pp. 325-342 : 329

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5222.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7466658
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scientific name	Mesogastrura Bonet, 1930
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Genus Mesogastrura Bonet, 1930 View in CoL

Type species. Hypogastrura (Mesogastrura) carpetana Bonet, 1930 View in CoL

Type locality. Cueva del Reguerillo , Patones, Municipality of Torrelaguna, Madrid, Spain .

Diagnosis. Body color mostly white. Head with mostly less than 5 + 5 eyes. AIIIO with 2 long guards and 2 short sensilla. PAO of simple form with 4 or rarely 5 lobes. Tibiotarsi with 2 or more knobbed tenent hairs. Empodium reduced, chaeta-like shape. Furca well developed, mucro spear head-shaped. Anal spines absent ( Thibaud et al. 2004).

Distribution. Cosmopolitan (Europe, South Africa, Equador, Japan and South Korea)