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Issue: Vol. 5604 No. 3: 14 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.3.9
Page range: 373-382
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

Reexamination of three North American Nipponentomon species (Protura, Acerentomidae, Nipponentominae) with updated key to identification

Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals; Polish Academy of Sciences; ul. Sławkowska 17; 31-016 Kraków; Poland; State Museum of Natural History; Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences; Teatral’na St. 18; UA 79008 L’viv; Ukraine; Institute of Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry; Biology Centre CAS; Na Sádkách 7; CZ-370 05; Česke Budĕjovice; Czech Republic
Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals; Polish Academy of Sciences; ul. Sławkowska 17; 31-016 Kraków; Poland
Institute of Nature Conservation; Polish Academy of Sciences; Mickiewicza 33; 31-120 Kraków; Poland
Protura chaetotaxy porotaxy taxonomy distribution

Abstract

Type material of three Nipponentomon species, N. andrei, N. aureitarsum and N. californicum, are analysed. Additional descriptions include morphological characters, which were not described earlier, such as chaetotaxy of head, length and shape setae on nota and foretarsus, and porotaxy on tergites and sternites. The updated key for all known 16 Nipponentomon species is provided.

 

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