A new species of bristletails of the genus Coryphophthalmus Verhoeff, 1910 (Microcoryphia: Machilidae) from Krasnodar Region, Russia

Abstract

The Southern European-Caucasian genus Coryphophthalmus Verhoeff, 1910 with relatively long and thin ovipositor, lacking long setae, includes two subgenera, Coryphophtalmus s. str. and Verhoeffius Kaplin, 2019 with 2 + 2 eversible vesicles on urites II–IV and II–V, respectively. A new bristletail species, Coryphophthalmus aureaocellus Kaplin, sp. n., is described from Sochi National Park (Russia) and belongs to the subgenus Coryphophthalmus s. str. including 36 species. Coryphophthalmus aureaocellus sp. n. differs from other species of this subgenus by the colouration and the structure of paired ocelli, the ratio of length of cerci and body, the chaetotaxy of male labial and maxillary palps, the ratio of length of the 3rd tarsomere of the hind tarsus to its total length, the ratio of the length of urostyli to urocoxites.

Keywords

• microcoryphia
• machilidae
• coryphophthalmus
• new species
• caucasus