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Issue: Vol. 2542 No. 1: 20 Jul. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-07-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2542.1.5
Page range: 61–68
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

Revision of the genus Austrogastrura Thibaud & Palacios-Vargas, 1999 (Collembola: Poduromorpha: Hypogastruridae)

Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Botânica, Ecologia e Zoologia, Centro de Biologia, Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte 59072-970, Natal, RN, Brazil
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Collembola Brazilian collembolan diversity chaetotaxy soil fauna systematics

Abstract

A study of type material of Austrogastrura travassosi (Arlé, 1939) and fresh specimens of the genus from several Brazilian regions revealed that the present interpretation of the species is not correct. In this paper we redescribe the type-species of the genus Austrogastrura, A. travassosi, and described a new one, A. marambaia sp. nov. Both species share a remarkable bright orange color pattern of alive specimens. The revision of A. travassosi also showed that A. edaphica (Rapoport, 1962) is a valid species. A complete diagnosis of the genus Austrogastrura and a comparative table of the known species are also given. At the present time, Austrogastrura has only four known species, two of them recorded from Brazil.

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