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Issue: Vol. 4526 No. 1: 28 Nov. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.1.2
Page range: 29–40
Abstract views: 125
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Two new species of Plutomurus Yosii (Collembola, Tomoceridae) from the Caucasus

Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Giorgi Tsereteli 3, 0162, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, 31008, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
Department of Environmental Biology, University of Navarra, 31008, Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, 00927, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL 32608
Collembola Springtail Garakha Shurubumu cave Georgia

Abstract

Two new species of Plutomurus, P. pichkhaiai sp. nov. from Garakha and Letsurtsume caves and P. shurubumuensis sp. nov. from Shurubumu Cave (Chkhorotsku district, Western Georgia) are described, and illustrated. The new species are very similar to P. kelasuricus from the Tsebelda karst massif formation in Apkhazeti, Georgia, but differ in having two inner spine-like chaetae on the inner edge of the hind tibiotarsus (only one in P. kelasuricus) and in occupying different, isolated cave formations separated by a geographic distance of nearly a 100 km. A key to the species of Plutomurus with 6 prelabral chaetae is provided.

 

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