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Issue: Vol. 4388 No. 3: 5 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.6
Page range: 407–416
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A remarkable new species of Zoraptera, Zorotypus asymmetristernum sp. n., from Kenya (Insecta, Zoraptera, Zorotypidae)

Graduate School of Symbiotic Systems Science and Technology, Fukushima University, Kanayagawa 1, Fukushima, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan.
Department of Functional Morphology and Biomechanics, Zoological Institute, Kiel University, Am Botanischen Garten 1-9, D-24118 Kiel, Germany. Section of Invertebrates Zoology, National Museum of Kenya P.O. box 40658-00100, Museum Hill, Nairobi, Kenya.
Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Erbertstraße 1, 07743, Jena, Germany.
Section of Invertebrates Zoology, National Museum of Kenya P.O. box 40658-00100, Museum Hill, Nairobi, Kenya.
Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukuba, Sugadaira-kogen 1278-294, Ueda, Nagano 386-2204, Japan.
Zoraptera eye dimorphism asymmetry Afrotropical region Ethiopian region

Abstract

A new species of order Zoraptera, Zorotypus asymmetristernum Mashimo, n. sp., is described from Kakamega, Kenya, with its major diagnostic features and characteristics of the egg described and illustrated. The new species represents the sixth zorapteran species from the Afrotropic ecozone. A brief discussion on vestigial eye spots of apteron individuals and a key to the species of the Afrotropic ecozone are provided.

 

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