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Type: Article
Published: 2014-10-29
Page range: 491–497
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A new species of Furculanurida (Collembola: Neanuridae) from Ivory Coast, with comments on related genera

Université Félix Houphouët Boigny de Cocody, UFR Biosciences, Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Biologie Animale, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte-d'Ivoire.
Université Félix Houphouët Boigny de Cocody, UFR Biosciences, Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Biologie Animale, 22 BP 582 Abidjan 22, Côte-d'Ivoire.
UMR7205, Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, CP50, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 45 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France.
labium Africa Arlesiella Kenyura Pseudachorutinae Pseudachorutes Stachorutes

Abstract

A new species of Pseudachorutinae, Furculanurida emucronata sp. nov., is described from Lamto in the Ivory Coast. It differs from all known Pseudachorutinae species by the presence of a strong lateral tooth on the claw of leg I, and from other species of the genus Furculanurida by the absence of a mucro. It is provisionally assigned to the genus Furculanurida which is redefined accordingly. The heterogeneity of the genus is stressed, and its relationships with Arlesiella, Kenyura, Pseudachorutes and Stachorutes are discussed.