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Issue: Vol. 5659 No. 3: 4 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.4
Page range: 377-399
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Two new luminous species of Neanuridae (Collembola) and the discovery of bioluminescence in the genus Crossodonthina Yosii

Tamarokuto Science Center; 5-10-64 Shibakubocho; Nishi-tokyo; Tokyo 188-0014; Japan
Faculty of Environment and Information Sciences; Yokohama National University; 79-7 Tokiwadai; Hodogaya; Yokohama; Kanagawa 240-8501; Japan
Collembola Asia Lobella Börner Lobellini key to species Japan

Abstract

This study describes two new luminous microarthoropod species, Crossodonthina leodeus sp. nov. and Lobella lucifera sp. nov., and reports the discovery of bioluminescence in two previously described species, Crossodonthina elegans Kasai, Tanaka & Sawahata and Crossodonthina laterisensillata Ohira, Kataoka, Tanooka & Nakamori, from the tribe Lobellini (Collembola, Neanuridae, Neanurinae) in Asia. Identification keys to the species of both genera have been updated and taxonomic remarks on the genus Cassagnaua Özdikmen are provided. This study represents the first description of bioluminescent Collembola as new species, and the first report of bioluminescence in the genus Crossodonthina Yosii.

 

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Ohira, A. & Nakamori, T. (2025) Two new luminous species of Neanuridae (Collembola) and the discovery of bioluminescence in the genus Crossodonthina Yosii. Zootaxa, 5659 (3), 377–399. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.3.4