Coletinia redetecta Molero, Bach & Gaju, 2013

Molero-Baltanás, Rafael, Gaju-Ricart, Miquel, Fišer, Žiga, Bach de Roca, Carmen & Mendes, Luís F., 2022, Three new species of European Coletinia Wygodzinsky (Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae), with additional records and an updated identification key, European Journal of Taxonomy 798 (1), pp. 127-161 : 150-152

Coletinia redetecta Molero, Bach & Gaju, 2013

Coletinia redetecta Molero, Bach & Gaju in Molero et al., 2013: 38–40 , figs 2a, 7, 102–116.

Material examined

SPAIN • 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀; Castellón Province , La Vall de Uixó, Coves de Sant Josep; 15 Oct. 2016; A. Sendra leg.; UCO, Ref. Z2642 .

Distribution

Endemic to karstic areas of Castellón Province, in eastern Spain.

Variability remarks

The specimens of this sample were collected in a cave about 78 km to the south of the type locality of the species. They are tentatively assigned to C. redetecta , although there are some differences in some characters with the type material. Here, we consider that these differences can be attributed to intraspecific variability. The most important difference is the lower number of ventral macrochaetae in tibiae (in specimens from the type locality, the metatibiae usually have 6 or more ventral macrochaetae and in the new sample the metatibiae bear 5 macrochaetae). A thorough examination of all available specimens has revealed that all tibiae have at least 2 (frequently, 3) dorsal macrochaetae (if only one was reported for this species, this was caused by a loss of the setae, but the insertion of the second one has been detected). This character is shared with C. longitibia Molero, Bach & Gaju 2013 and C. capolongoi , but not with C. tessella Molero, Bach & Gaju, 2013 and all the species of the group capolongoi distributed further south, which bear only one dorsal macrochaetae on their metatibiae. This character has been included in the key at the end of this work, but the number of the ventral macrochaetae is excluded due to the variability mentioned above.

The formula of pegs on the cerci of the holotype is: C1 (0) +C2 (1[0 id]+2[0–1 id] +3[1 id]). The only male available from the second locality where the species was found (Avenc d’en Serenge, Cabanes) has the cerci damaged. The formula of cerci in a male of the new locality (La Vall de Uixó) is: C1 (0) +C2 (1[1 id]+2[1 id] +3[1 id]+4[1 id]). The paracercus in all specimens examined lacks short spines; there are 0–2 thin acute dorsal spines in the first and second divisions of P2.