Soil Organisms (Feb 2024)

Two new species of Proisotoma Börner, 1901 from Southeastern Brazil (Collembola: Isotomidae)

  • Maria Cleide de Mendonça,
  • Gabriel Costa Queiroz,
  • Tatiana Cristina da Silveira

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 87, no. 1

Abstract

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Two new species of Proisotoma from different Biological Conservation Unities of southeastern Brazil are described: P. douglasi sp. nov., found in Parque Nacional de Itatiaia (Rio de Janeiro State) and P. copiosa sp. nov., from Sooretama Biological Reserve (Espírito Santo State). We observed a presence of spine chaetae on antennae of males and 2 chaetae inserted on papillae laterally on tibiotarsus III in males and females in P. copiosa sp. nov.

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