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Issue: Vol. 2885 No. 1: 20 May. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2885.1.7
Page range: 65–68
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A new species of Brachystomella (Collembola: Brachystomellidae) from the Atlantic Forest of southeast Brazil

Doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia. Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Quinta da Boa Vista, São Cristóvão, 20940-040 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sławkowska 17, Pl-31 016 Kraków, Poland
Collembola Brachystomellidae

Abstract

The genus Brachystomella, established by Ågren (1903), is currently composed of 67 described species worldwide (Najt & Weiner 1996; Bellinger et al, 2010). Of these, 31 are known from the neotropical region (Weiner & Najt 2001), of which eight (Abrantes et al. 2010) have so far been found in Brazil: B. agrosa Wray, 1953, B. aspera (Börner, 1906), B. ceciliae Fernandes & Mendonça, 2004, B. villalobosi Cassagnau & Rapoport, 1962, B. platensis Najt & Massoud, 1974, B. septemoculata Denis, 1931 and the cosmopolitan B. parvula (Schäffer, 1896) and B. contorta Denis, 1931. The majority (53) of the species in the genus have 8+8 eyes with the exception of five species: B. septemoculata Denis, 1931 with 7+7 eyes, B. sexoculata Massoud, 1967, with 6+6 eyes, and B. chilensis (Rapoport & Rubio, 1963), B. montebella Najt & Palacios-Vargas, 1987 and B. zerpa Weiner & Najt, 2001 with 5+5 eyes. The new species is the first in the genus to have only 2+2 eyes.

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