Abstract
A new cave-dwelling species, Deuteraphorura pieroluccii sp. n., is described from northern Italy. The size of adult specimens, number, and distribution of dorsal and ventral pseudocelli, and number of compound vesicles of the post antennal organ were used to distinguish it among other congeneric species.
Highlights
Specimens of Deuteraphorura pieroluccii sp. n. were collected by hand inside the caves “Abisso Luigi Fantini” and “Buco del Noce” located very close to each other in the Messinian gypsum outcrops of the Vena del Gesso Romagnola (Brisighella, Ravenna Province, northern Italy) and preserved in 75% alcohol, until their preparation
The new species belongs to the group of Deuteraphorura without pseudocelli on the Th
Five of them differ from the new species by their ventral pso formulae: D. bosnaria 3/022/3212; D. ossaria 3/022/3222; S. scotaria 2/022/2212; D. silesiaca 2/011/1212; D. dianae 3/011/3112
Summary
Several species of Deuteraphorura have been recently described, or re-described (Gruia and Popa 2005, Dallai and Fanciulli 2009, Fanciulli et al 2010, Jordana et al 2012, Weiner and Fiera 2014, Arbea and Park 2015, Parimuchová and Kováč 2016, Arbea 2017), updating the total number of the species of the genus to 83 (Bellinger et al 1996–2017). The defining characters of the genus Deuteraphorura appear to be wellestablished due to the revision carried out by Weiner (1996) and Pomorski (1998), and to the introduction of some updated systematic keys (Jordana et al 2012; Weiner and Fiera 2014). The Italian fauna of Deuteraphorura includes 16 species both from caves and open habitats (Fanciulli et al 2010), with most of them being endemic along the Italian peninsula. The new species was already reported as Deuteraphorura sp. in Fabbri and Poletti (2015)
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