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Collophora africana Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964 b

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.17804999

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scientific name

 Collophora africana Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964 b
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Collophora africana Delamare-Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964 b View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Purplish blue with diffuse yellow spots. Ant. IV with a blunt sensillum, without ciliated chaetae, undivided. One sensilla next to bothriothrica D, leaf shaped. Small abdomen of the female with ms 1 as a regular chaeta, ps 1 – ps 2 serrated, with 2 + 2 dorsal and 1–2 + 1 – 2 ventral winged circumanal chaetae. Trochanteral regular chaetae (disregarding the trochanteral organ) formula as 3 / 2 / 2 in legs I – III, respectively. Femur I with two spines. Ungues I – III with a single inner tooth and tunica. Unguiculi I – II with an inner tooth, unguiculus III devoid of such structure. Dens with a basal appendage and nine dorsal chaetae, seven of them as spines (adapted from Delamare-Deboutteville and Massoud 1964 b).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Collembola

Order

Symphypleona

SuperFamily

Katiannoidea

Family

Collophoridae

Genus

Collophora

Specimens