Two new species and new records of Neanuridae (Hexapoda: Collembola) from Brazilian central Amazonia

By

Neves, Ana Carolina
Mendonça, Maria Cleide de
Queiroz, Gabriel

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2019-4-5

Original Publication

Nature conservation

Volume

36

Pages

1--8

Subjects

Frieseinae , Neanurinae , Neotropics , Pseudachorutinae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2012-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zoologia.36.e23269

 

Abstract

Two new species of Neanuridae from the Amazon Rainforest of Northern Brazil are described and illustrated. The new speciesFrieseamulticlavatasp. nov. (holotype male in MNRJ: Brazil, Amazonas State) belongs to the reducta-group and represents the first record of Frieseinae for Amazonas State in Brazil. Within Pseudachorutinae, the new speciesFurculanuridaboiunasp. nov. (holotype male in MNRJ: Brazil, Amazonas State) represents the third species of this genus without eyes and body pigment, together withFurculanuridaafricana(Massoud, 1963) – type species of the genus – andFurculanuridaemucronataZon et al., 2014, both from Ivory Coast, in Africa. Lastly, an indefinite species ofEctonurasp. (Neanurinae) is the second record of the genus for the Neotropical Region.