Mucronia enigmatica Fjellberg, 2010, sp. n. ...

Mucronia enigmatica sp. n. (Figs. 93–109) Type material. Holotype: Reproductive male (slide) from "Alaska: Juneau. Mts. between Mendenhall Glacier and Montana Creek Trail, 58o29'N, 134o40'W, 13.VII.1980. On melt-water ponds, 975 m. alt., A. Fjellberg leg." Paratype: Reproductive...

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Main Author: Fjellberg, Arne
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Published: Zenodo 2010
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3504044
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3504044
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Summary:Mucronia enigmatica sp. n. (Figs. 93–109) Type material. Holotype: Reproductive male (slide) from "Alaska: Juneau. Mts. between Mendenhall Glacier and Montana Creek Trail, 58o29'N, 134o40'W, 13.VII.1980. On melt-water ponds, 975 m. alt., A. Fjellberg leg." Paratype: Reproductive male (slide, without head) from the same sample. Both specimens are transparent due to long storage in diluted ethanol and details of chaetotaxy are hard to see (INHS). Description. Body size 0.95 mm (in slide). Body slender, with long furca (Fig. 93). Eye-spots dark, otherwise almost white. Frons slightly swollen. Abd. 5–6 not fused. Eye-fields with 6+6 large ocelli. PAO about the size of an ocellus, roundish, with four blunt lobes and swollen mid section (Fig. 94). Details of antennal chaetotaxy not seen, apart from ant. 3 organ which has two large sensilla and a ventrolateral spinelike sensillum (Fig. 99). Labrum with 5,5,4 papillate stiff setae, 4 prelabrals, anterior edge with four low ridges followed by a median tubercle (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 43-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196078 ...