Collophora terrabrasilis Zeppelini & Brito, 2013

Medeiros, Gleyce da Silva, dos Santos, Manuela Lima Valério, Nunes Godeiro, Nerivânia & Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, 2025, A survey of Collophora Richards (Collembola, Collophoridae), with a new species from Brazil and an identification key for the genus, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72 (2), pp. 557-568 : 557-568

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.72.165410

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17805023

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scientific name

Collophora terrabrasilis Zeppelini & Brito, 2013
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Diagnosis.

Light purple or pink, with ventral body, legs, and furca pale. Ant. IV with 0–5 subsegments (if present, very weakly subsegmented), without blunt sensilla or ciliated chaetae. Labral chaetae 2 / 5 / 4, all regular. One sensillum next to bothriothricum A, two sensilla next to bothriothricum D. Parafurcal area with 5 + 5 regular chaetae. Small abdomen of the female with ms 1, ps 1, and ps 2 as regular chaetae, without winged chaetae, but with 3 + 3 ventral thick chaetae. Trochanteral regular chaetae (disregarding the trochanteral organ) formula as 1 / 1 / 1 in legs I – III, respectively. Femur I with one spine. Ungues I – III with tunica, only unguis I with the internal tooth. Unguiculi I – III without the inner tooth. Ventral tube with 1 + 1 chaetae. Tenaculum with one chaeta. Dens without a basal appendage, with eight dorsal chaetae, three of them as spines (adapted from Zeppelini and Brito 2013).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Collembola

Order

Symphypleona

SuperFamily

Katiannoidea

Family

Collophoridae

Genus

Collophora