Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi Cipola, Morais & Bellini, 2020, nom. nov.

• Main Authors: Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Morais, José Wellington De, Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Collembola; Entomobryidae; Lepidocyrtinus; Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi; Table Mountain; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4421065; https://zenodo.org/record/4421065

Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. Cipola & Bellini Figs 2, 12, Tables 1 and 3 Seira ( Lepidocyrtinus ) annulicornis Yosii 1959: 10, figs 5A–H, South Africa, Cape Town, Table Mountain (Fig. 2), not examined; Janion-Scheepers et al. 2015: 68, Africa South (catalog). Diagnosis. Body pale white with violet pigments on Ant III–IV, Ant II and femur I–III distally; Th II projected anteriorly and with 14 anterior, 7 median ( m1ip absent, m4 and m4i present) and 11 posterior mac ( p3 present); Th III–Abd II with 9, 5, 4 central mac respectively (Fig. 12A); Abd IV with 17 central mac and 8 lateral mac (Fig. 12B); unguis a.t. present; unguiculus with all lamella acuminate and toothless (Fig. 12C); manubrial plate with 3 blunt mac; dens with 9–10 blunt mac apically nipple-like (Fig. 12D). Etymology. It is named after Dr. Ryozo Yoshii (in memoriam), an important Collembola researcher. Remarks. Lepidocyrtinus ryozoi nom. nov. resembles L. annulicornis in general morphology (see the remark sections of these species and Table 3). : Published as part of Cipola, Nikolas Gioia, Morais, José Wellington De & Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2020, Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species, pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 4898 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4898.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4392515 : {"references": ["Yosii, R. (1959) Collembolan fauna of the Cape Province, with special reference to the genus Seira. Biological Results of the Japanese Antarct Research Expedition, 6, 1 - 24. https: // doi. org / 10.5134 / 176436", "Janion-Scheepers, C., Deharveng, L., Bedos, A. & Chown, S. L. (2015) Updated list of Collembola species currently recorded from South Africa. ZooKeys, 503, 55 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 503.8966"]}