Desoria albicornis 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 albicornis; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509495; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3509495

Desoria albicornis sp. n. (Figs. 19–29, 111, 115C) Type material (all in alcohol, sex not checked). Holotype and 55 paratypes from: "Alaska, mountains between Mendenhall Glacier and Montana Creek Trail, 58o29'N, 134o40'W, on melt-water ponds, 975 m. alt., 13.VII.1980, A. Fjellberg leg." (INHS). Description. Body size up to 1.3 mm. Body shape cylindrical, slender, with relatively short legs (Fig. 115 C). Head shape normal. Abd. 5–6 weakly separated, with a clear break in setal cover. Colour uniformly violet black, antennae pure white apart from dark proximal half on ant. 1. Head with a transverse row of four small white spots (Fig. 111). Tibiotarsi paler than rest of the legs. Each side of head with 6 large ocelli and two very small ones. PAO oval, as long as diameter of nearest ocellus, with three associated setae (Fig. 24). Ant. 1 on ventral side with up to 10 long slender sensilla and 2–3 short ones in apical position. Ant. 2 with an enlarged sensillum in lateral position (Fig. 22). Ant. 3 organ normal, ... : 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 32-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196078 ...