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Issue: Vol. 3872 No. 4: 10 Oct. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.4.5
Page range: 381–386
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

Two new species of Willowsia from New Caledonia (Collembola: Entomobryidae)

Department of Entomology, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, P. R. China.
UMR 7205 CNRS, Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
UMR 7205 CNRS, Institut Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
colour pattern scales chaetotaxy

Abstract

The genus Willowsia is reported for the first time from New Caledonia. Two new species, W. neocaledonica sp. nov. and W. nigra sp. nov., are described based on material deposited at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris. The new species can be distinguished from other members of the genus by coloration and characters of the dorsal chaetotaxy of the head and terga.