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Issue: Vol. 4221 No. 5: 20 Jan. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-01-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4221.5.2
Page range: 523–536
Abstract views: 63
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A revision of the genus Lepidobrya Womersley (Collembola: Entomobryidae) based on morphology and sequence data of the genotype

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China.
Faculty of Science and Technology, Federation University, Ballarat, Victoria, 3353, Australia. Department of Biology, Australian National University, GPO Box Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia
South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia. E-mail: Mark.Stevens@samuseum.sa.gov.au School of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
Collembola taxonomy DNA barcode Entomobryinae Willowsiini chaetotaxy Macquarie Island subantarctic

Abstract

The genus Lepidobrya Womersley, previously placed in Willowsiini, is re-diagnosed based on a redescription of the type species L. mawsoni (Tillyard) and its DNA barcode. Specimens possess narrow, pointed scales on the dens, two inner teeth on unguis, a truncate unguiculus with an outer tooth, a bidentate mucro with a basal spine and ordinary tergal S-chaetae 2, 2|1, 2, 2, ?, 3, so belongs to the Entomobryinae. Its systematic position and relationships to other scaled Entomobryinae genera are discussed and comments are made on the distribution of the genus as well as on ecology.

 

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