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Issue: Vol. 1312 No. 1: 11 Sept. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-09-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1312.1.3
Page range: 37–47
Abstract views: 129
PDF downloaded: 31

Two new American species of Paraxenylla (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) and ecological notes

Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 04510 México, D. F.
Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, B-2020, Belgium.
Collembola Hypogastruridae Paraxenylla taxonomy

Abstract

Two new species of Paraxenylla are described and illustrated, Paraxenylla cubana sp. nov. from Cuba and Paraxenylla peruensis sp. nov. from Peru. The species Paraxenylla mangle (Murphy, 1965) stat. nov., comb. nov. is revalidated and recombined. Paraxenylla arenosa (Uchida & Tamura, 1967) comb. nov. and Paraxenylla oceanica (Yosii, 1960) comb. nov. are transferred from Xenylla. A key for the 8 species known in the genus is also given and detailed information about the ecology of Paraxenylla peruensis sp. nov. is provided.

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