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Issue: Vol. 1727 No. 1: 14 Mar. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1727.1.4
Page range: 39–43
Abstract views: 59
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Anisentomon from Hainan, Southern China (Protura: Eosentomidae)

Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China Information Center for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, People’s Republic of China
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China
Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, People’s Republic of China
Protura Eosentomidae Anisentomon new species Hainan China taxonomy

Abstract

Anisentomon hainanense new species is described from Hainan Province, Southern China. This species is characterized by the presence of four anterior setae on urosternites IV–VII and six setae on urosternites IX–X, also by one pair of curved spines on urotergite X in the position of setae A1.The shapes of the paired spines on urotergites X or XI are compared for the five known species of this genus. An updated key to the Chinese species of Anisentomon is also presented.

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