Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917

Mandal, Pritha, Mandal, Guru Pada, Suman, Kusumendra Kumar & Bhattacharya, Kaushik Kumar, 2024, Two new species and one new record of Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917 (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from the Eastern Himalayan region of India, European Journal of Taxonomy 935, pp. 101-121 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.935.2549
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11277726
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scientific name	Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917
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Genus Willowsia Shoebotham, 1917 View in CoL

Diagnosis

Body length ranges from 1–2 mm; 8+8 eyes within dark patches; four segmented antennae, unilobed or bilobed apical bulb; scales broad and apically pointed with various rib length from spinulate to uninterrupted type, present on body and frequently on appendages also; elongated terminal scales absent on body segments; unguis with one or two unpaired teeth; dens without scales and spines; bidented mucro with basal spine.

References

Shoebotham J. W. 1917. Notes on the Collembola, part 4. The classification of the Collembola; with a list of genera known to occur in the British Isles. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 425 - 436. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222931709486959