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Issue: Vol. 5249 No. 5: 6 Mar. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.5.3
Page range: 559-576
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Three new species of Collembola from Sicily with first record of the genus Superodontella Stach, 1949 from Italy

Department of Agricultural, Food, and Forest Sciences (SAAF), University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Ed. 4, 90128 Palermo, Italy.
University of Navarra, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Biology, Irunlarrea 1, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
University of Navarra, Faculty of Science, Department of Environmental Biology, Irunlarrea 1, 31008, Pamplona, Spain. University of Navarra, Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente BIOMA, Irunlarrea 1, 31008, Pamplona, Spain.
Entomobryidae Lepidocyrtus Pseudosinella Odontellidae new species soil fauna Taxonomy Collembola

Abstract

Three new species of soil Collembola from both agricultural lands (vineyards and olive orchards) and a natural habitat (beech forest) located in Sicily (Italy) are described: Superodontella eleonorae sp. nov., first record of this genus for Italy, Lepidocyrtus rapitalai sp. nov. and Pseudosinella francae sp. nov..

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