Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis (Borner 1903) sensu Coates 1968
- Dataset
- Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Collembola
- order
- Entomobryomorpha
- family
- Entomobryidae
- genus
- Lepidocyrtinus
- species
- Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis
description
(catalog).
description
Figs 2, 11, Tables 1 and 3
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Body pale white with dark violet pigments on Ant I – IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 6 median (m 1 ip present) in m 1 – 2 complex and 11 posterior mac (p 3 absent); Th III – Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively (Fig. 11 A); unguis a. t. present; unguiculus pe lamella serrated but toothless; manubrial plate with 2 – 3 blunt mac; dens with 4 blunt mac (Fig. 11 B) (modified from B ̂ rner 1903; Coates 1968).
discussion
Remarks. The specimen of L. annulicornis described by Yosii (1959) from Cape Town does not show the same morphology of specimens from Mozambique (sensu B ̂ rner 1903; Denis 1935; Coates 1968) (Fig. 2), and for this reason they are herein designated as L. ryozoi nom. nov. In this same sense the chaetotaxy description of Szeptycki (1979), as well as the interpretation by Soto-Adames (2008) of Seira annulicornis (locality not specified) also do not fit neither the description of Yosii (1959) or Coates (1968), and consequently should not be considered as identity of this species. Even so, L. annulicornis differs from these species by body with dark violet pigments on Ant I – IV, proximal leg III, femur and tibiotarsus distally, while L. ryozoi nom. nov. has pigments on Ant III – IV, Ant II and tibiotarsus I – III distally (unknow in Szeptycki’s specimens). Lepidocyrtinus annulicornis differs in chaetotaxy by Th II with 6 median mac in m 1 – 2 complex (5 in L. ryozoi and Szeptycki’s specimens) and posteriorly without p 3 mac (present in L. ryozoi). They also differ by Th III with p 1 i mac and p 1 i 2 mac absent (opposite in L. ryozoi), and dens with 4 blunt mac (9 – 10 in L. ryozoi). Other differences among similar species to L. annulicornis are listed in Table 3.