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Issue: Vol. 1728 No. 1: 17 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1728.1.2
Page range: 59–68
Abstract views: 35
PDF downloaded: 18

Four new Pseudosinella (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from La Rioja, Spain

Comisión Docente de Zoología, Departamento de Biología, C/ Darwin, 2, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Laboratorio de Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Dpto. Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510 México, D. F., México
Collembola Entomobryidae Pseudosinella Spain La Rioja new species

Abstract

Four new species of Pseudosinella from La Rioja, Spain are described and illustrated. They are P. logrognensis sp. nov., P. leivaensis sp. nov., P. gutierrezae sp. nov. and P. torcuatoensis sp. nov., which were found in soils of different field crops. Identification keys are given for some of them, based on the chaetotaxy or the number of eyes, in order to compare the new species with those having 5 + 5 eyes.

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