Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4200 No. 3: 30 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.1
Page range: 351–366
Abstract views: 109
PDF downloaded: 1

A new cave species of Coecobrya Yosii (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Entomobryinae) from South Africa, with an identification key to the genus

Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia – INPA, CPEN. Avenida André Araújo, 2936, Aleixo, CEP 69011−970, Cx. Postal 478, Manaus, AM, Brazil
Programa de Pós-graduação em Sistemática e Evolução, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Rodovia BR 101, Lagoa Nova, Campus Universitário, 59072-970 Natal, RN, Brazil
Collembola Entomobryini Ethiopian Region systematics tenebricosa-group troglobite

Abstract

Coecobrya anaguilae sp. nov., a new species of springtail from Cango Caves, South Africa is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to other species of tenebricosa-group such as C. communis (Chen & Christiansen), C. edenticulata (Handschin), and C. tropicalis Qu, Chen & Greenslade in some elements of dorsal chaetotaxy, absence of eyes, unguis with one unpaired median tooth, and manubrium without smooth chaetae, but differs from them in dorsal head, mesothoracic and collophore chaetotaxy. This is the first species of Coecobrya described from Africa as well as the first indisputable record of the genus for the whole continent. In this study an updated key to the species of the genus is provided, adding 14 species to the most recently published identification key. We also discuss some aspects of distribution and evolution of Coecobrya.

 

References

  1. Bellinger, P.F., Christiansen, K.A. & Janssens. F. (1996–2016) Checklist of the Collembola of the World. Available from: http://www.collembola.org (Accessed 06 Jun. 2016)

    Bernard, E.C., Soto-Adames, F.N. & Wynne, J.J. (2015) Collembola of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) with descriptions of five endemic cave-restricted species. Zootaxa, 3949 (2), 239–267.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3949.2.6

    Bonet, F. (1931) Estudios sobre colémbolos cavernícolas con especial referencia a los de la fauna Española. Memorias de la Socidad Española de Historia Natural, 14, 231–403.

    Brook, G. (1882) On a new genus of Collembola (Sinella) allied to Degeeria Nicolet. Journal of the Linnean Society of London Zoology, 16, 541–545.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1882.tb02398.x

    Chen, J.-X. & Christiansen, K.A. (1993) The genus Sinella with special reference to Sinella s. s. (Collembola: Entomobryidae) of China. Oriental Insects, 27, 1–54.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1993.10432236

    Chen, J.-X. & Christiansen, K.A. (1997) Subgenus Coecobrya of the genus Sinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae) with special reference to the species of China. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 90, 1–19.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aesa/90.1.1

    Christiansen, K.A. (1961) Convergence and parallelism in cave Entomobryinae. Evolution, 15 (3), 288−301.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2406229

    Christiansen, K.A. & Bellinger, P.F. (1992) Insects of Hawaii. Vol.15. Collembola. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 445 pp.

    Christiansen, K.A. & Bellinger, P. (1994) Biogeography of Hawaiian Collembola: The simple principles and complex reality. Oriental Insects, 28, 309–351.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00305316.1994.10432309

    Christiansen, K., & Culver, D. (1987) Biogeography and the distribution of cave collembolan. Journal of Biogeography, 14, 459–477.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2844976

    Cipola, N.G., Morais, J.W. & Bellini, B.C. (2014) A new species of Seira (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Seirini) from Northern Brazil, with the addition of new chaetotaxic characters. Zoologia, 31 (5), 489–495.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702014000500009

    Culver, D.C. & Pipan, T. (2015) Shifting paradigms of the evolution of cave life. Acta Carsologica, 44 (3), 415–425.

    Deharveng, L. (1990) Fauna of Thai Caves. II. New Entomobryoidea Collembola from Chiang Dao Cave, Thailand. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers, 30, 279–287.

    Denis, J.R. (1948) Collemboles d'Indochine récoltes de M.C. Dawydoff. Musee Heude, Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, 12 (17), 183–311.

    Fjellberg, A. (1999) The Labial Palp in Collembola. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 237, 309–330.

    Folsom, J.W. (1902) Collembola of the grave. Psyche, 9, 363–367.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1902/42417

    Gisin, H. (1967) Espèces nouvelles et lignées évolutives de Pseudosinella endogés. Memórias e Estudos do Museu Zoológico da Universidade de Coimbra, 301, 5–25.

    Good, R. (1974) The geography of flowering plants. Longman Group, United Kingdom (4th edition), 574 pp.

    Handschin, E. (1926) Ost-indische Collembolen, III. Beitrag zur Collembolenfauna von Java und Sumatra. Treubia, 8, 446–461.

    Jordana, R. (2012) Capbryinae & Entomobryini. In: Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola Vol. 7/1. Soil Organisms, 84 (1), 1–390.

    Jordana, R. & Baquero, E. (2008) Coecobrya kennethi n. sp. (Collembola, Entomobryomorpha) and presence of Arrhopalites caecus (Tullberg, 1871) from Ana Roiho cave (Maunga Hiva Hiva), Rapa Nui-Easter Island. Euryale, 2, 68–75.

    Katz, A.D., Taylor, S.J., Soto-Adames, F.N., Addison, A., Hoese, G.B., Sutton, M.R. & Toulkeridis, T. (2016) New records and new species of springtails (Collembola: Entomobryidae, Paronellidae) from lava tubes of the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador). Subterranean Biology, 17, 77–120.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.17.7660

    Kottek, M., Grieser, J., Beck, C., Rudolf, B. & Rubel, F. (2006) World map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification updated. Meteorologische Zeitschrift, 15, 259–263.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0130

    Mari Mutt, J.A. (1979) A revision of the genus Dicranocentrus Schött (Insecta: Collembola: Entomobryidae). Agricultural Experiment Station University of Puerto Rico, Bulletin, 259, 1–79.

    Pan, Z.-X., Zhang, F. & Shi, S.-D. (2012) Contribution to study of eyed species of Sinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae), with a key to this group of species from China. Zootaxa, 3180, 35–46.

    Park, K.-H. (2004) A New Species of Halophilous Collembola (Insecta) from Korea. Entomological Research, 34 (2), 73–77.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5967.2004.tb00094.x

    Qu, J., Chen, J.-X. & Greenslade, P. (2007) Australian species of Sinella (Coecobrya) Yosii, 1956 (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Journal of Natural History, 41 (21–24), 1301–1311.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930701414179

    Schäffer, C. (1896) Die Collembola der Umgebung von Hamburg und benachbarter Gebiete. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 13, 150–216.

    Schött, H. (1896) North American Apterygogenea. California Academy of Sciences Proceedings, 2nd Series, 6, 169–196.

    Shi, S.-D. & Pan, Z.-X. (2015) A new species of Coecobrya (Entomobryidae: Collembola) from Dongtou Island, Zhejiang Province. Entomotaxonomia, 37 (2), 81–87.

    Soto-Adames, F.N. (2008) Postembryonic development of the dorsal chaetotaxy in Seira dowlingi (Collembola, Entomobryidae); with an analysis of the diagnostic and phylogenetic significance of primary chaetotaxy in Seira. Zootaxa, 1683, 1–31.

    Soto-Adames, F.N., Barra, J.A., Christiansen, K. & Jordana, R. (2008) Suprageneric Classification of the Entomobryomorpha Collembola. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 101 (3), 501–513.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2008)101[501:SCOCE]2.0.CO;2

    Szeptycki, A. (1979) Chaetotaxy of the Entomobryidae and its phylogenetical significance. Morpho-systematic studies on Collembola. IV. Polska Akademia Nauk, Zak³ad Zoologii Systematycznej i Doœwiadczalnej, Pañstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warszawa, Kraków, 219 pp

    Tömösvary, Ö. (1882) Adatok hazánk Thysanura-Faunájához. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Mathematikai és Természettudományi Közlemények. 18, 119–131, 1 pl.

    Wang, F., Chen, J.-X. & Christiansen, K.A. (2002) A new species of the subgenus Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from China. Journal of Entomological Science, 37, 213–218.

    Xu, G.-L. & Zhang, F. (2015) Two new species of Coecobrya (Collembola, Entomobryidae) from China, with an updated key to the Chinese species of the genus. Zookeys, 498, 17–28.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.498.9491

    Xu, G.-L., Yu, D.-Y. & Zhang, F (2012) Two new species of Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae: Entomobryinae) from China, with a key to the Chinese species of the genus. Zootaxa, 3399, 61–68.

    Yoshii, R. (1995) Notes on Collembola of Vanuatu. Acta Zoologica Asiae Orientalis, 3, 43–50.

    Yoshii, R. & Suhardjono, Y.R. (1989) Notes on the Collembolan Fauna of Indonesia and its vicinities. I. Miscellaneous Notes, with special references to Seirini and Lepidocyrtini. Acta Zoologica Asiae Orientalis, 1, 23–90.

    Yosii, R. (1942) Japanische Entomohryinen (Insecta, Collembola). Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 10 (4), 476–495.

    Yosii, R. (1956a) Hohlencollembolen Japans II. Japan Journal of Zoology, 11, 609–627.

    Yosii, R. (1956b) Monographie zur Höhlencollembolen Japans. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory Kyoto University, 11, 608–627.

    Yosii, R. (1959) Studies on the Collembolan Fauna of Malay and Singapore with special reference to the Genera: Lobella, Lepidocyrtus and Callyntrura. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory Kyoto University, 10, 1–65.

    Yosii, R. (1964) Some Collembola from Okinawa caves, with notes on Sinella-Coecobrya complex of Japan. Bulletin of the Akiyoshi-dai Science Museum, 3, 25–34.

    Yosii, R. (1971) Cave Collembola of New Guinea collected by the Explorer's Club of the Nanzan University. Contributions from the Biological Laboratory Kyoto University, 23 (2), 77–79.

    Zhang, F. & Deharveng, L. (2015) Systematic revision of Entomobryidae (Collembola) by integrating molecular and new morphological evidence. Zoologica Scripta, 44, 298–311.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12100

    Zhang, F. & Dong, R.-R. (2014) Three new species of Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Zootaxa, 3760 (2), 260–274.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3760.2.6

    Zhang, F., Bedos, A. & Deharveng, L. (2014a) New species of Sinella and Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from New Caledonia. Zootaxa, 3814 (4), 553–566.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3814.4.7

    Zhang, F., Bedos, A. & Deharveng, L. (2016) Cave-dwelling Coecobrya from southern China with a survey of clypeal chaetae in Entomobryoidea (Collembola). European Journal of Taxonomy, 226, 1–21.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.226

    Zhang, F., Deharveng, L. & Chen, J.-X. (2009) New species and rediagnosis of Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae), with a key to the species of the genus. Journal of Natural History, 43, 2597–2615.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903243970

    Zhang, F., Man, L.C. & Deharveng, L. (2011a) A review of the boneti-group of the genus Coecobrya (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Zootaxa, 2748, 61–68.

    Zhang, F., Qu, J.-Q. & Deharveng, L. (2010) Two syntopic and remarkably similar new species of Sinella and Coecobrya from South China (Collembola, Entomobryidae). Zoosystema, 32 (3), 469–477.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2010n3a8

    Zhang, F., Yu, D.-Y. & Xu, G.-L. (2011b) Transformational homology of the tergal setae during postembryonic development in the Sinella-Coecobrya group (Collembola: Entomobryidae). Contributions to Zoology, 80, 213–230.

    Zhang, F., Chen, Z., Dong, R.-R., Deharveng, L., Stevens, M.I., Huang, Y.-H. & Zhu, C.-D. (2014b). Molecular phylogeny reveals independent origins of body scales in Entomobryidae (Hexapoda: Collembola). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 70, 231–239.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2013.09.024

    Zhang, F., Sun, D.-D., Yu, D.-Y. & Wang, B.-X. (2015) Molecular phylogeny supports S-chaetae as a key character better than jumping organs and body scales in classification of Entomobryoidea (Collembola). Scientific Reports, 5, 12471.
    http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1038/srep12471