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Original Articles

Redescription of two Crossodonthina species (Collembola: Neanuridae: Lobellini) from China

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Pages 2119-2129 | Received 06 Nov 2009, Accepted 20 Apr 2010, Published online: 05 Aug 2010
 

Abstract

Two Chinese species, Crossodonthina hainana Xiong et al., Citation2005 and C. tiantongshana Xiong et al., Citation2005, are redescribed in detail on the basis of reexamining the types and other specimens collected from the type locality during the present study. More characters are described and figured, such as the labrum, labium, antenna, leg and ventral chaetotaxy of abdominal segments I–VI. Corrections are made to the original description and figures on mandible, maxilla, macrosetal structure, body dorsal tubercles and chaetotaxy.

Acknowledgements

The present study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China (2006FY120100). Thanks are given to Mrs. Yin Wenying, in the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for her kindness in offering us the types. Thanks also should be given to Mr. Zhang Yiyun, who collected some specimens in Hainan for the present study.

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