Synonymy of two monobasic Anurophorinae genera (Collembola: Isotomidae) from the Antarctic Continent

Two monotypic endemic genera, Gressittacantha and Neocryptopygus, from Continental Antarctica, and erected on a single character respectively, are here synonymised with Cryptopygus, a genus with two already described species on the Antarctic Continent. A table of diagnostic characters for the now fo...

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Published in:New Zealand Entomologist
Main Author: Greenslade, Penelope
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Entomological Society of New Zealand 2015
Subjects:
06 Biological Sciences
Cryptopygus
Generic diversity
Gressittacantha
Habitats
Neocryptopygus
Table of species
Anurophorinae
Collembola
Isotomidae
Antarctic
The Antarctic
New Zealand
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/97206
https://doi.org/10.1080/00779962.2015.1033810
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Summary:Two monotypic endemic genera, Gressittacantha and Neocryptopygus, from Continental Antarctica, and erected on a single character respectively, are here synonymised with Cryptopygus, a genus with two already described species on the Antarctic Continent. A table of diagnostic characters for the now four Cryptopygus species from the Antarctic Continent is provided and comments made on habitats and Antarctic collembolan diversity. A possible new species of Cryptopygus from the Antarctic Continent is foreshadowed. © 2015 The Entomological Society of New Zealand.

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