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

• 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

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.