- Title
- The rare richardsitas betsch (collembola, symphypleona, sminthuridae) : a new species from Australia with comments on the genus and on the sminthurinae
- Creator
- Medeiros, Gleyce; Greenslade, Penelope; Bellini, Bruno
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/174528
- Identifier
- vital:14849
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.3390/insects11080519
- Identifier
- ISBN:2075-4450 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Richardsitas Betsch is a small genus of Sminthurinae with only two species described so far, both from Madagascar. It resembles other Sminthurinae with long antennae, especially Temeritas Richards. Here we provide the first record of Richardsitas from Australia, Richardsitas subferoleum sp. nov., which is similar to R. najtae Betsch and R. griveaudi Betsch in males’ large abdomen chaetotaxy and presence of tenent-hairs on tibiotarsi II–III, but lacks mucronal chaeta and has 28 segments on the fourth antennal segment plus a unique pair of sensilla on the second. We also provide an updated genus diagnosis to Richardsitas, a key to its species, a discussion of the affinities of Temeritas and Richardsitas to other Sminthurinae, and an updated key to this subfamily. © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; This research was supported by UFRN. B.C.B. was granted by CAPES and CNPq (PROTAX II, process #156828/2016-01 and PQ2018, process # 305426/2018-4, respectively); G.S.M. was granted by CAPES (Master scholarship).
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Relation
- Insects Vol. 11, no. 8 (2020), p. 1-16
- Rights
- Metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 0608 Zoology; Chaetotaxy; Oceania; Sminthuroidea; Survey; Temeritas-group
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This research was supported by UFRN. B.C.B. was granted by CAPES and CNPq (PROTAX II, process #156828/2016-01 and PQ2018, process # 305426/2018-4, respectively); G.S.M. was granted by CAPES (Master scholarship).
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