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Issue: Vol. 2448 No. 1: 7 May. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-05-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2448.1.4
Page range: 53–60
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Two new species of Seira (Collembola, Entomobryidae) from Brazilian coast

Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Laboratório de Invertebrados Paulo Young, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Campus I. 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil
Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. 20940-040, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Laboratório de Invertebrados Paulo Young, Universidade Federal da Paraíba - Campus I. 58059-900, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil Universidade Estadual da Paraíba Campus V, João Pessoa, PB Centro de Ciências Biológicas e Sociais Aplicadas Associação Guajiru – Ciência – Educação – Meio Ambiente. Scientific Board. Federal Inscription
Collembola Brazilian collembolan diversity chaetotaxy patterns Seirinae systematics

Abstract

Two new species of Seira Lubbock (Entomobryidae), S. praiana sp. nov. and S. potiguara sp. nov., are described and illustrated. Both species were collected on Brazilian coast. S. praiana sp. nov. has some similarities with S. americana Jacquemart and S. nunezae Christiansen & Bellinger while S. potiguara sp. nov. resembles S. brasiliana (Arlé) and S. proannulata (Bonet) in some aspects of the dorsal distribution of the macrochaetae. Seira is a very specious genus in Brazil, and with the addition of S. praiana sp. nov. and S. potiguara sp. nov., the number of recorded species for the country increase to 24.

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