Desoria capra 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 capra; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509802; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.3509802

Desoria capra sp. n. (Fig. 77) Type material. Holotype (female, in slide) and paratype (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." (INHS). Description. Size 1.2 mm (subadult female in slide). Eye-spots black, rest of body white. Ocelli 6+6. Labrum modified, with stiff setae set close together (somewhat like Gnathisotoma spinolabris, described below). Apical edge of labrum membranous, without visible ventral ciliation (more like rough sandpaper). Maxillary palp trifurcate. Maxillae modified, with prolonged lamellae; Lam.1 passes well beyond tip of capitulum and appears almost smooth, without visible ciliation. Third tooth of capitulum thin and membranous (Fig. 77). Labium with 4+4 basomedian setae. Ventral tube with 1+1 frontal and 3+3 lateral setae. Dens with 7 dorsal setae in proximal half. Tib. 1–2 shortened, inner side with 3+3 setae along median line (as Fig. 72). Abd. 5–6 ... : 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 page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196078 ...