Tomocerus sikkimensis, Mandal & Kumari & Mandal & Roy & Suman & Bhattacharya, 2024

Mandal, Guru Pada, Kumari, Simran, Mandal, Pritha, Roy, Koushik Kumar, Suman, Kusumendra Kumar & Bhattacharya, Kaushik Kumar, 2024, Description of a new species with three new records of Tomocerus Nicolet (Collembola: Tomoceridae) from India, Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10 (4), pp. 755-768 : 764

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https://doi.org/10.61186/jibs.10.4.755

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scientific name

Tomocerus sikkimensis
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Key to the Indian species of Tomocerus Nicolet, 1842 View in CoL

1 Dental spines complex with 3 or more large denticles. ................................................................................. 2

— Dental spines simple or smooth; finely striated. ............................................................................................. 3

2 Dental spines with more than three petaloid denticles. ...................... T. ( T.) petalospinous Salmon, 1969 View in CoL

— Dental spines with three large denticles. ......................................................... T. ( T.) minor ( Lubbock, 1862) View in CoL

3 Corpus of tenaculum with 2 chaetae. ................................ T. ( T.) mitrai Prabhoo & Muraleedharan, 1980 View in CoL

— Corpus of tenaculum with more than 4 chaetae. ............................................................................................. 4

4 Mucro with three prominent intermediate teeth. .................................. T. ( T.) serratospinus Salmon, 1969 View in CoL

— Mucro with more than three intermediate teeth. ............................................................................................ 5

5 Dens with single distal stout, large spine. .............................. T. ( O.) paraspinulus Gong, Qin & Yu, 2018 View in CoL

— Dens with two distal stout, large spines. .......................................................................................................... 6

6 Distal dental spine arranged as 1, 1–3, 1. ..................................................... T. ( S.) vulgaris (Tullberg, 1871) View in CoL

— Distal dental spine arranged as 1, 0, 1. .............................................................................................................. 7

7 Mucro with 4 intermediate teeth. .................................................................. T. ( s. str.) sikkimensis View in CoL sp. nov.

— Mucro with 5–9 intermediate teeth. .................................................................................................................. 8

8 Dental basal part with 3 spines. .......................................................................... T. ( O.) ocreatus Denis, 1948 View in CoL

— Dental basal part with 4–5 spines. .............................................................. T. ( O.) qinae Yu, Yao & Hu, 2016 View in CoL

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