Hypogastrura persica Kahrarian, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Skarżyński, Konikiewicz, Soleymannezhadyan, Mehr & Shams, 2013, sp. nov.

• Main Authors: Kahrarian, Morteza, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Reza, Skarżyński, Dariusz, Konikiewicz, Marta, Soleymannezhadyan, Ebrahim, Mehr, Masoumeh Shayan, Shams, Bahman
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• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Entognatha; Collembola; Hypogastruridae; Hypogastrura; Hypogastrura persica; Seta; Skar; Siberia; Springtail
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146668; https://zenodo.org/record/6146668

Hypogastrura persica sp. nov. Kahrarian, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Skarżyński & Konikiewicz Figs 1–6 Type material. Holotype male on slide, soil and litter, oak forest, Zagros Mountains, near Patogh ghaut (N 34 ° 25 ’ E 46 °00’ / 1030 m a.s.l.), Sarpol-e-zahab County, Kermanshah Province, Iran, 1.i. 2013, leg. M. Kahrarian. Paratypes: 1 female on slide, same data as holotype; 1 female on slide, same data as holotype, but 3.xii. 2012. Holotype and 1 paratype are deposited at the Arak Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran and 1 paratype in the collection of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Wrocław University, Poland. Etymology. Named after the historical name of Iran, Persia. Description . Body length 1.2–1.6 mm. Colour bluish-grey. Granulation fine and uniform, 10–11 granules between setae p 1 on abdominal tergum V. Chaetotaxy of head typical of the genus, with complete set of v-setae. Setae short and smooth. Body sensilla (s) 2 times longer than ordinary setae, fine and smooth. Dorsal chaetotaxy of thoracic tergum II and abdominal terga III–VI as in Figs 1, 2. Thoracic tergum I with 3 + 3 setae. Thoracic tergum II with setae m 2, m 3 and m 4. Thoracic tergum III with setae m 2, m 3 absent and setae m 4 present. Setae p 3 and p 7 on abdominal tergum IV present. Abdominal tergum V with setae a 2 in backward position, setae p 2 present and m-setae absent. Subcoxae I, II, III with 1, 2, 3 setae respectively. Microsensillum on thoracic tergum II present. Antennal segment IV with simple apical vesicle, subapical organite (or), microsensillum (ms), 4 (1 dorsal and 3 lateral) curved, cylindrical sensilla (Fig. 6). Antennal III-organ with two long (outer) and two short (inner) sensilla. Microsensillum on ant. III present (Fig. 6). Antennal segment I with 7 setae (seta p’ absent). Ocelli 8 + 8. Postantennal organ with 4 lobes typical of the genus, about 2 times larger than neighbour ocellus (Fig. 3). Accessory boss present. Labrum with 4 apical papillae. Labral setae 5, 5, 4, prelabrals 4. Maxillary head and labium of the H. tullbergi type (Fjellberg 1984). Outer lobe of maxilla with 2 sublobal hairs. Tibiotarsi I, II, III with 19, 19, 18 setae respectively. Apical seta A 1 slightly clavate. Claws with small inner tooth. Empodial appendage with broad basal lamella and apical filament reaching slightly beyond inner tooth of unguis (Fig. 4). Ventral tube with 4 setae on each side. Retinaculum with 3 + 3 teeth. Furca slightly reduced (ratio dens + mucro/inner edge of claws III 1.7–1.9). Dorsal side of dens with fine, uniform granulation and 5 setae. Mucro with low outer lamella. Ratio dens/mucro 3.5–4.0 (Fig. 5). Anal spines small, situated on low basal papillae (Fig. 2). Remarks . H. persica sp. nov. belongs to the group of species characterized by the presence of 8 + 8 ocelli, labrum with apical papillae, reduced furca, tridentate retinaculum, small anal spines and one tenent hair on tibiotarsi. Up to now eight such species are known: H. oreophila Butschek, 1948 sensu Skarżyński (2011) (Alps), H. capitata Cassagnau & Delamare, 1955 (Lebanon), H. exigua Gisin, 1958 sensu Skarżyński (2011) (Alps), H. verruculata Rusek, 1967 (China), H. mongolica (Nosek, 1976) sensu Skarżyński (2011) (Mongolia), H. ramia Lee & Choe, 1979 (S Korea), H. magistri Babenko, 1994 (in: Babenko et al . 1994) (Siberia) and H. pizzoci Fanciulli & Dallai, 2008 (Alps). H. persica sp. nov. having 5 setae on the dens is most similar to H. exigua and H. magistri , but they clearly differ in the body size ( H. persica sp. nov. 1.6 mm, H. magistri 1.25 mm and H. exigua 0.8 mm), by the number of cylindrical sensilla on antennal segement IV ( H. persica sp. nov. and H. exigua 4, H. magistri 6), setae on dens ( H. persica sp. nov. and H. magistri 5 + 5, H. exigua 3–5 usually 4) and on the ventral tube ( H. persica sp. nov. and H. magistri 4 + 4, H. exigua 5 + 5), as well as by the chaetotaxy of abdominal terga IV–V (additional setae are absent in H. persica sp. nov. and H. exigua , but present on both segments in H. magistri ). The remaining species of the above list having either 6 ( H. pizzoci , H. capitata , H. verruculata , and H. ramia ), 4 ( H. mongolica ) or 2–4, usually 3 ( H. oreophila ) setae on the dens can be also easily distinguished from H. persica sp. nov. : Published as part of Kahrarian, Morteza, Vafaei-Shoushtari, Reza, Skarżyński, Dariusz, Konikiewicz, Marta, Soleymannezhadyan, Ebrahim, Mehr, Masoumeh Shayan & Shams, Bahman, 2013, A new species and new records of the genus Hypogastrura Bourlet, 1839 (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from Iran, pp. 89-94 in Zootaxa 3709 (1) on page 91, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/284652 : {"references": ["Fjellberg, A. (1984) Maxillary structures in Hypogastruridae (Collembola). Annales de la Societe Royale Zoologique de Belgique, 114, 89 - 99.", "Butschek, E. (1948) Einige neue und wenig bekannte Collembolen aus den Nordostalpen. Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 33, 25 - 34.", "Skarzynski, D. 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