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Issue: Vol. 4232 No. 3: 17 Feb. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-02-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.12
Page range: 437–443
Abstract views: 96
PDF downloaded: 3

Acerentulus tortii sp. nov. from Greece (Protura: Acerentomidae)

Dipartimento di scienze della terra, dell’ambiente e della vita – University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy.
Dipartimento di scienze della terra, dell’ambiente e della vita – University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy.
Dipartimento di scienze della terra, dell’ambiente e della vita – University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy.
Dipartimento di scienze della terra, dell’ambiente e della vita – University of Genoa, Corso Europa 26, I-16132 Genoa, Italy.
Protura Berberentulinae Stropones Euboea new species taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Protura, Acerentulus tortii sp. nov., from the island of Euboea, central Greece, is described and illustrated. The new species belongs to the A. cunhai species group, based on a short foretarsal sensillum a not reaching seta γ3, and sensilla b and c subequal in length. The most similar species are A. christensoni (Ewing, 1940) and A. rafalskii Szeptycki, 1979), from which A. tortii sp. nov. differs by the porotaxy of sternite III and the lengths of various foretarsal sensilla.

 

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