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Issue: Vol. 2553 No. 1: 29 Jul. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-07-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2553.1.3
Page range: 60–64
Abstract views: 57
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Folsomia from mofette fields of the Northwest Czechia (Collembola, Isotomidae)

Senckenberg Museum of Natural History, PF 300154, 02806 Görlitz (Germany)
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Department of Zoology and Ecology, Kibalchicha str. 6, Moscow 129278 (Russia)
Collembola Folsomia mofettophila sp. nov. key to F. bisetosa-complex mofette fields

Abstract

Folsomia mofettophila sp. nov. is described from cold, volcanic gas vents (mofettes) in the Northwest Bohemia (Czech Republic). The species is characterized by large post-antennal organ and combines characters of F. bisetosa Gisin and F. kuznetsovae Potapov & Taskaeva.

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