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Issue: Vol. 5570 No. 2: 17 Jan. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-01-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.8
Page range: 371-379
Abstract views: 72
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Two new species of Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) Yu from Xizang, China (Collembola, Tomoceridae)

Soil Ecology Lab; Department of Ecology; College of Resources and Environmental Sciences; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing; Jiangsu 210095; China
College of Resources and Environment; Xizang Agriculture and Animal Husbandry University; Linzhi; Xizang 860000; China
Department of Entomology; College of Plant Protection; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing; Jiangsu 210095; China
Collembola Himalayas morphology-based taxonomy Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Tomocerinae

Abstract

Two new species of Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) are described from Gyirong Valley, Xizang Autonomous Region, China. Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) gyirongensis sp. nov. and Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) oppositus sp. nov. are both similar to Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) spinulus Chen & Christiansen, 1998 in the absence of blunt dorsal chaetae on manubrium and presence of single large distal dental spines, but these three species can be distinguished mainly by body color, number of tibiotarsal strong inner chaetae, number and position of manubrial prominent chaetae, and arrangement of basal dental spines.

 

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