Desoria ater Fjellberg, 2010, sp. n. ...

• Main Author: Fjellberg, Arne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Entognatha; Collembola; Isotomidae; Desoria; Desoria ater; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3502710; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3502710

Desoria ater sp. n. (Figs. 35–43, 113, 115D) Type material (in alcohol, sex not checked). Holotype and 11 paratypes from "Alaska Mountains,. between Mendenhall Glacier and Montana Creek Trail, 58o29'N, 134o40'W, on goat dung in snowfields, 1,000 m alt., 14.VII.1980, A. Fjellberg leg." (INHS). Description. Body size up to 1.7 mm. Body shape slender, typical Desoria with abdomen slightly pearshaped (Fig. 115D). Head shape normal, not prognathous/hypognathous. Abd. 5–6 completely fused, without a gap in setal cover. Colour uniformly dark greyish black. Antennae, legs (beyond coxae) and furca paler, greyish green; antennal segments all of same colour. Head with two small white spots between the eye-fields (Fig. 113). Ocelli 8+8, G & H slightly smaller, arrangement characteristic, with ocelli ABCDE forming a triangle. PAO oval, as long as diameter of nearest ocellus. Two setae near ventral edge of PAO (Fig. 41). Ant. 1 with a group of 5–6 short ventroapical sensilla and more than 10 setaceous sensilla (Fig. ... : Published as part of Fjellberg, Arne, 2010, Cryophilic Isotomidae (Collembola) of the Northwestern Rocky Mountains, U. S. A., pp. 27-49 in Zootaxa 2513 on pages 34-36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196078 ...