Lepidosira wuxiensis, Qian & Jing & Ma, 2025

Qian, Xiaowei, Jing, Meidong & Ma, Yitong, 2025, First report of Lepidosira (Collembola, Entomobryidae) from China, with description of four new species under the aid of COI barcoding, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72 (2), pp. 341-365 : 341-365

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scientific name	Lepidosira wuxiensis
status	sp. nov.

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Lepidosira wuxiensis sp. nov.

Figs 14 View Figure 14 , 15 View Figure 15 , 16 View Figure 16 , 17 View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18 , 19 View Figure 19 , Table 3 View Table 3

Type material.

Holotype. CHINA • ♀ on slide; Chongqing Municipality, Wuxi County, the Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve , the Guanshan Protection Station , the Stone Pillar ; 2,168.92 m a. s. l.; 31 ° 32 ' 15 " N, 109 ° 41 ' 54 " E; 28 Jul. 2024; Y. T. Ma leg.; sample number 1321 ( CQWX 0717 ). GoogleMaps

Paratypes. CHINA • 3 ♀ on slides, same data as holotype GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

Posterior parts of Abd. IV – V violet pigmented; Ant. IV with bilobed apical bulb; head with one mac on Gr. II; Th. II with one medio-medial, two medio-sublateral and 10–12 posterior mac; Th. III to Abd. IV respectively with 8, 4, 3, 2 and 8–9 central mac; Abd. III with four lateral mac.

Description.

Body (head + trunk) length up to 2.01 mm, holotype 2.01 mm.

Color pattern: ground color pale yellow; eye patches dark blue; each segment of Ant. I – III distally violet pigmented, Ant. IV and base of Ant. I with scattered violet pigment; a little violet pigment present on post-ocular region; posterior parts of Abd. IV – V violet pigmented (Fig. 14 A View Figure 14 ). Scattered violet pigment sometimes present on Th. II – Abd. III and legs (Fig. 14 B View Figure 14 ).

Scales: ciliate type, present on Ant. I – II (Fig. 15 A View Figure 15 ), head (Fig. 15 B View Figure 15 ), legs (Fig. 15 C View Figure 15 ), both faces of ventral tube, ventral side of manubrium and dentes (Fig. 15 D View Figure 15 ), terga (Figs 15 E View Figure 15 , 16 A View Figure 16 ).

Head: antenna not annulated and 0.56–0.57 ( holotype 0.57) times length of body. Ratio of Ant. I – IV as 1.00 / 1.50–1.73 / 1.30 – 1.44 / 2.22 – 2.77 ( holotype 1.00 / 1.67 / 1.40 / 2.77). Distal part of Ant. IV with many sensory chaetae and normal ciliate chaetae, apical bulb bilobed (Fig. 16 B View Figure 16 ). Ant. III sensory organ with two rods, two spiny guard sensilla, smooth blunt sens, and ciliate chaetae (Fig. 16 C View Figure 16 ). Ant. II with three rods apically (Fig. 16 D View Figure 16 ). Eyes 8 + 8, G and H smaller than others, interocular chaetae as p, q, r, s, t mes. Dorsal chaetotaxy of head with 7–9 antennal (An), four anterior (A 0, A 2, A 3, A 5), four median (M 1–4), eight sutural (S 0–7) mac, one post-sutural mac (Ps 2) mac and mes (Ps 5), 12 posterior mac plus one (Pa 1) in Gr. II (Fig. 16 E View Figure 16 ). Prelabral and labral chaetae as 4 / 5, 5, 4, prelabral chaetae ciliate and other smooth, a 2 and b 2 slightly shorter than middle ones, labral papillae conical (Fig. 16 F View Figure 16 ). Basal chaeta on maxillary outer lobe almost as thick as apical one; sublobal plate with four smooth chaetae-like processes (Fig. 16 G View Figure 16 ). Lateral process (l. p.) of labial palp E finger-like with tip almost or not reaching apex of papilla E (Fig. 16 H View Figure 16 ). Labial base with M 1 M 2 REL 1 L 2, all ciliate (Fig. 16 I View Figure 16 ).

Thorax: tergal ms formula on Th. II – Abd. V as 1, 0 / 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, sens as 2, 2 / 1, 2, 2, 2, 3 (Figs 17 A View Figure 17 , 18 A – C View Figure 18 ). Th. II with about nine anterior, one medio-medial (m 1), two medio-sublateral (m 4, m 4 i), 10–12 posterior mac. Th. III with eight central and six lateral mac (Fig. 17 A View Figure 17 ). Coxal chaetal formula as 4–6 / 8 – 9 (anterior), 4–10 (posterior) / 9–10 (Fig. 17 B – D View Figure 17 ). Trochanteral organ with 25–58 smooth chaetae (Fig. 17 E View Figure 17 ). Tenent hair smooth and clavate, 1.12–1.25 length of inner edge of unguis; unguis with a pair of laterobasal outer teeth and four inner teeth, basal paired inner teeth located at 0.46–0.49 distance from base of inner edge of unguis, distal unpaired inner teeth at 0.71–0.74 and 0.85–0.88 distance from base, respectively; unguiculus lanceolate, outer edge slightly serrate (Fig. 17 F View Figure 17 ).

Abdomen: range of Abd. IV length as 3.29–5.67 ( holotype 4.81) times as dorsal axial length of Abd. III. Abd. I with four (m 2–4, m 4 i) mac. Abd. II with three (a 2, m 3, m 3 e) central, one (m 5) lateral mac. Abd. III with two (a 2, m 3) central, four (am 6, pm 6, m 7 a, p 6) lateral mac (Fig. 18 A View Figure 18 ). Abd. IV with two normal sens, 8–9 central, 13–16 lateral mac (Fig. 18 B View Figure 18 ). Abd. V with three sens (Fig. 18 C View Figure 18 ). Anterior face of ventral tube with 3 + 3 large and 4–6 small ciliate chaetae, line connecting proximal (Pr) and external-distal (Ed) mac oblique to median furrow (Fig. 18 D View Figure 18 ); posterior face with two apical smooth chaetae besides about 35 ciliate chaetae of different sizes (Fig. 19 A View Figure 19 ); each lateral flap with five smooth and nine ciliate chaetae (Fig. 19 B View Figure 19 ). Manubrial plate dorsally with 16–20 ciliate mac and three pseudopores (Fig. 19 C View Figure 19 ); ventrally with 27–31 ciliate chaetae (Fig. 19 D View Figure 19 ). Mucro bidentate; tip of basal spine reaching apex of subapical tooth; distal smooth section of dens slightly longer than mucro in length (Fig. 19 E View Figure 19 ).

Etymology.

The name is composed of the locality name Wuxi plus the Latin suffix “ - ensis, ” meaning pertaining or originating, referring to its type locality, Wuxi County.

Habitat.

Found in litter of subtropical forests, mainly composed of leaves of Buxus sinica , Ilex yunnanensis , Pinus armandii , and Rosa corymbulosa .

Remarks.

The new species can be easily distinguished from other species by its color pattern, although it is somewhat similar to the New Zealand species L. dorsalis ( Salmon, 1941) . However, only the posterior part of Abd. IV is brown pigmented in the former, and almost the whole part of Abd. IV is pigmented in the latter. The main differences between the new species and the other Chinese species of the genus in chaetotaxy are listed in Table 3 View Table 3 .