Jacekaphorura gen. nov.––a new genus of Protaphorurini (Collembola: Onychiuridae) from mountainous Yakutia, East Siberia

• Published in: Zootaxa
• Main Authors: POMORSKI, ROMUALD J., BABENKO, ANATOLY
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mangolia Press 2010
• Subjects: Collembola; Onychiuridae; Sakha; Kyubyume; Makarova; Sakha Republic; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.2444.1.6; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2444.1.6

The Siberian fauna of Onychiuridae seems to be rather diverse and only slightly touched by taxonomic works (Martynova 1976; Fjellberg 1987; Pomorski 2001). The vast territory of Yakutia (Sakha Republic) is not an exception. Thus, only 3 of 13 Onychiuridae species collected in 2002 by O. Makarova in upper current of Kyubyume River in the eastern mountainous part of Yakutia could be identified more or less correctly during a primary sorting of material. Up to now some of the others were described by Pomorski & Kaprus’ (2007) and Babenko (2009). Here we present a description of a new species from the same region which can not be placed in any existing genus.