Two new species of the genus Sinella Brook, 1882 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from East China

Abstract

Two new species, Sinella hexaseta sp. nov. and Sinella pauciseta sp. nov., collected from East China, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces, respectively, were described. Both are easily discriminated from each other and all known Sinella species by their unique dorsocentral chaetotaxic patterns on Abd. IV. In S. pauciseta sp. nov., postlabial setae H_1–4 are ciliate, which are smooth in all other known species of the genus.

Keywords:

• Sinella hexaseta sp. nov.
• Sinella pauciseta sp. nov.
• taxonomy
• chaetotaxy

Acknowledgements

The study was supported by funds from the Ministry of Science and Technology of People's Republic of China (2006FY120100).