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Issue: Vol. 1645 No. 1: 23 Nov. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-11-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1645.1.6
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Willowsia (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from South China

Department of Biological Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, P. R. China
Department of Biological Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P. R. China
Collembola Entomobryidae Willowsia guangdongensis sp. nov. key China

Abstract

Willowsia guangdongensis sp. nov. from South China is described. It can be easily distinguished from other Willowsia species by the color pattern, dorsal chaetotaxy, interocular setae and labral papillae. It is most close to the worldwide species W. nigromaculata (Lubbock), 1873; however, it differs from the latter in the absence of labral papillae and dorsal chaetotaxy. A key to the Chinese species of the genus is given.

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