Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2021 Mar 1:1021:1-18.
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1021.63147. eCollection 2021.

A new European species of Ceratophysella (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) revealed by morphological data and DNA barcodes

Dariusz Skarżyński  1 , Adrian Smolis  1 , Ľubomír Kováč  2 , David Porco  3
Affiliations

A new European species of Ceratophysella (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) revealed by morphological data and DNA barcodes

Dariusz Skarżyński et al. Zookeys. .

Abstract

A new species, Ceratophysella stachi, from Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine is described based on morphological data and DNA barcodes. It belongs to a small European group of species with type B chaetotaxy and strong tegumentary granulation with distinct fields of coarse granules: C. granulata Stach, 1949, C. lawrencei (Gisin, 1963), C. neomeridionalis (Nosek & Červek, 1970), C. scotica (Carpenter & Evans, 1899), and C. silvatica Rusek, 1964. It differs from all of them in the chaetotaxy of lateral parts of thoracic terga II-III (setae m6 present and one additional seta outside lateral sensillum m7 present or absent) that is exceptional within the whole C. armata-group. Notes on closely related species C. granulata are also given.

Keywords: COI sequences; Ceratophysella granulata; Ceratophysella stachi sp. nov.; Springtails; integrative taxonomy.

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Distribution of Ceratophysella stachi sp. nov. (black circles) and C. granulata (empty circles). Abbreviations: AKE – Akershus, B – Bieszczady Mts, BM – Beskid Mały Mts, BN – Beskid Niski Mts, BRA – Brandenburg, BS – Beskid Sądecki Mts, BW – Beskid Wyspowy Mts, BZ – Beskid Żywiecki Mts, CH - Čierna hora Mts, FUN – Funen, HES – Hesse, JUT – Jutland, L - Levočské vrchy Mts, LD – Lviv District, LT – Low Tatra Mts, LUX – Luxembourg, M – Muránska planina Plateau, MEC – Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, P – Pieniny Mts, S – Slovak Paradise, SAX – Saxony, SK – Slovak Karst, T – Tatra Mts, VES – Vestfold, VF – Veľká Fatra Mts.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Neighbor joining tree (K2P) of the five Ceratophysella species targeted (based on the 5' end of COI). Bootstrap supports showed on the branches. The upper and lower side of the triangle represent respectively the maximum and minimum of genetic distances within the species.
Figures 3, 4.
Figures 3, 4.
Ceratophysella stachi sp. nov. 3 chaetotaxy of thoracic tergum II 4 chaetotaxy of abdominal terga III–VI.
Figures 5–9.
Figures 5–9.
Ceratophysella stachi sp. nov. 5 chaetotaxy of dorsal side of antennal segments III–IV 6 chaetotaxy of ventral side of antennal segment IV 7 postantennal organ and neighbor ocelli 8 claw I 9 dens and mucro.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Babenko AB, Chernova NM, Potapov MB, Stebaeva SK. (1994) Collembola of Russia and Adjacent Countries: Family Hypogastruridae. Nauka, Moscow, 336 pp.
    1. Bagnall RS. (1941) Notes on British Collembola. VIII. The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 77: 217–226.
    1. Bellinger P, Christiansen KA, Janssens F. (1996‒2021) Checklist of the Collembola of the World. http://www.collembola.org [Accessed on: 14.I.2021]
    1. Bogojevič J. (1968) Collembola. Catalogus Faunae Jugoslaviae. III. /6, Ljubljana, 33 pp.
    1. Börner C. (1932) Apterygota. In: Brohmer P. (Ed.) Fauna von Deutschland, Auflage 4.Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig, 136–143.

LinkOut - more resources