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Issue: Vol. 2499 No. 1: 9 Jun. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2499.1.4
Page range: 57–62
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 18

Misturasotoma, a new nearctic springtail genus (Collembola: Isotomidae)

Entomology & Plant Pathology, The University of Tennessee, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Plant Sciences, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996-4560, U.S.A.
Department of Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 50112-0886 U.S.A.
Collembola Isotoma brucealla Isotoma brucei North America taxonomy Utah Washington

Abstract

Type specimens of Desoria brucealla (Wray), a western North American species, are transferred to Misturasotoma n.gen. The new genus differs from Desoria, Heteroisotoma, Isotoma, and Parisotoma by the following combination of characters: eyes absent, tibiotarsi with 11 setae in distal whorl, tenaculum with 9–15 setae, manubrium with apical spinelike setae, mucrones quadridentate, macrochaetae smooth, and sensilliform setae of abdominal segments IV and V short.

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