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Issue: Vol. 4268 No. 3: 17 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.3.5
Page range: 395–410
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Revision of Tomocerus similis Chen & Ma, with discussion of the kinoshitai complex and the distal tibiotarsal chaetae in Tomocerinae (Collembola, Tomoceridae)

Soil Ecology Lab, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China. Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center for Solid Organic Waste Resource Utilization, Nanjing 210014, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China.
Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China.
School of Life Sciences, Nantong University, Nantong 226000, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China.
DNA barcoding ecology tenent hair China new species Collembola

Abstract

Molecular analysis and a detailed morphological comparison revealed that Tomocerus similis Chen & Ma was described from individuals belonging to several species from several localities. Based on both old and new material from Anhui and Jiangsu Provinces, China, T. similis is redescribed and two new species are described. The three species are morphologically similar. Tomocerus persimilis sp. nov. differs from the others by the presence of central macrochaeta on head and of several distinct distal inner teeth on unguis. Tomocerus dissimilis sp. nov. is characterised by pointed tenent hairs on anterior legs. Remarks are made on the systematics and ecology of the kinoshitai complex, and on the taxonomic value of tenent hair and its adjacent chaetae.

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