Folsomia vitimica Potapov & Gulgenova, 2013, sp. nov.

Folsomia vitimica sp. nov. Figs 39–43 Type material. Holotype: female. Russia (East Siberia), Buryat Republic, Vitim Highland, Konda Basin, near Birkhasan river (ca 14 km N Telemba), larch wood (Larix gmelini) with grass, ca. 1000 m alt., 4.x. 2009, leg. A. Gulgenova. 3 paratypes from the same local...

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Main Authors: Potapov, Mikhail, Gulgenova, Ayuna
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/6156954
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6156954
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Summary:Folsomia vitimica sp. nov. Figs 39–43 Type material. Holotype: female. Russia (East Siberia), Buryat Republic, Vitim Highland, Konda Basin, near Birkhasan river (ca 14 km N Telemba), larch wood (Larix gmelini) with grass, ca. 1000 m alt., 4.x. 2009, leg. A. Gulgenova. 3 paratypes from the same locality (dated as 30.v. 2009 and 23.viii. 2009) and 10 paratypes from Eravna Basin of the same highland, ca. 3 km SW Sosnovo-Ozyorskoye, ca. 1050 m alt., larch wood on elevation with Rhododendron, 20.viii. 2009, leg. A. Gulgenova. Holotype and 7 paratypes in MSPU; 6 paratypes in BSU. Other material. Several specimens from from Konda Basin of Vitim Highland, near Birkhasan river (ca 14 km N Telemba), ca. 1050 m alt., larch wood on elevation with Rhododendron, 23.viii. 2009, and larch wood with Betula nana, ca. 14 km N Telemba, ca. 960 m alt., 9.vii. 2009, leg. A. Gulgenova. Description. Body size about 0,4 mm. Body without pigmentation, slender (Fig. 39). Cuticle with weak hexagonal primary granulation ("smooth"). Ocelli lacking. PAO narrowly elliptical, not constricted, 1.1–1.2 as long as width of Ant I and 1.6–1.9 as long as inner unguis length (Fig. 42). Maxillary outer lobe with 4 sublobal hairs, maxillary palp simple. Labral formula as 3 /5,5,4. Labium with 5 usual papillae (А–Е), guard chaetae e 7 absent, 3 proximal and 4 basomedian chaetae. Ventral side of a head with 4 + 4 chaetae. Ant.I with 2 ventral sensilla (s) and 2 small basal microsensilla (bms), dorsal and ventral, the former set together with long chaeta-form microsensillum (Fig. 42), Ant.II with 3 bms and 1 latero-distal s, Ant.III without bms and with 5 distal s (including 1 lateral), without additional sensilla. Sensilla on Ant. 4 weakly differentiated. Organite small. Sensillary formula as 4,3 /2,2,2,3,5 (s), 1,0/1,0,0 (ms). Tergal sensilla as long as common chaetae and hardly distinguishable. Medial sensilla on Th.II–Abd.III situated in mid-tergal position, on Abd.I–III between Mac 1 and Mac 2. Abd.V with 5 sensilla arranged with 3 dorsal ...