Academic editor: L. Deharveng
A new species,
Xie Z, Sun X, Weiner WM (2017) A new species of
Based on a study of specimens collected from Xiao Hinggan Mountains (northeast China), a new species is reported and a key to all known worldwide species is given.
Specimens were collected by hand using a brush, cleared in lactic acid and then mounted in Marc André II solution. They were studied with a Nikon Eclipse 80i microscope.
Labial type is named after
Holotype female, China, Heilongjiang Province, Yichun City, Liangshui National Park (
The holotype and 23 paratypes (15 females and 8 males) are deposited in Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; 3 paratypes (2 females and 1 male) in Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences.
Under moss on dead-and-down wood in the Korean pine forest.
Named for the national park in which the species was found.
The new species can easily be distinguished from all known congeners due to the unique number of dorsal and ventral
1 | Pseudocelli on |
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– | Pseudocelli on |
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2 | Unpaired axial chaeta on |
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– | Unpaired axial chaeta on |
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3 | Number of pseudocelli on |
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– | Number of pseudocelli on |
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4 | Ventral pseudocelli absent, subcoxae with one |
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– | Ventral pseudocelli formula as 1/000/0112, subcoxae with 2–3 |
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The present study was mainly supported by funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 41571052, 41430857), the National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2016YFA0602303), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No.: 2015M570281), the funding provided by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the academic exchange program between Chinese and Polish Academies of Sciences. Thanks to Dr. Tamara Hartke from University of Göttingen for the linguistic revision of our manuscript.