Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi Cipola, Morais, and Bellini 2020
- Dataset
- Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Morais, José Wellington De, Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante (2020): Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species. Zootaxa 4898 (1): 1-110, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4898.1.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Collembola
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Entomobryidae
- genus
- Lepidocyrtinus
- species
- Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi
description
Figs 2, 12, Tables 1 and 3
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Body pale white with violet pigments on Ant III – IV, Ant II and femur I – III distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 14 anterior, 7 median (m 1 ip absent, m 4 and m 4 i present) and 11 posterior mac (p 3 present); Th III – Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively (Fig. 12 A); Abd IV with 17 central mac and 8 lateral mac (Fig. 12 B); unguis a. t. present; unguiculus with all lamella acuminate and toothless (Fig. 12 C); manubrial plate with 3 blunt mac; dens with 9 – 10 blunt mac apically nipple-like (Fig. 12 D).
discussion
Remarks. Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. resembles L. annulicornis in general morphology (see the remark sections of these species and Table 3).
etymology
Etymology. It is named after Dr. Ryozo Yoshii (in memoriam), an important Collembola researcher.