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Issue: Vol. 2204 No. 1: 20 Aug. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2204.1.1
Page range: 1–18
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Cave Pygmarrhopalites Vargovitsh, 2009 (Collembola, Symphypleona, Arrhopalitidae) in United States

Universidade Estadual da Paraíba – Centro de Ciências Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas, Campus V. Laboratório de Sistemática e Conservação de Microartrópodes, Rua Monsenhor Walfredo Leal, 487, Tambia, 58020-540, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil Associação Guajiru – Ciência – Educação – Meio Ambiente, Federal Inscription number 051176990001.98,Scientific Board. Cabedelo, PB, Brazil
Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 South Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820-6953, USA
The Nature Conservancy, 601 North University Avenue, Little Rock, AR 72705, USA
Collembola cave Collembola taxonomy new species descriptions

Abstract

Six new species of Collembola of the family Arrhopalitidae are described from the United States (Pygmarrhopalites leonardwoodensis sp. nov., P. plethorasari sp. nov., P. youngsteadtii sp. nov., P. buffaloensis sp. nov., P. shoshoneiensis sp. nov., and P. ashcraftensis sp. nov.) from caves in Missouri (2 spp.), Arkansas (2 spp.), Nevada, and Indiana, respectively. These new taxa, which display varying degrees of troglomorphy, are compared with previously known species and bring the total described species in North America to 41.

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