Kohlsia

Acosta, Roxana, Salceda-Sánchez, Beatriz & Ponce-Ulloa, Hugo E., 2009, Two new species of fleas of the genus Kohlsia Traub, 1950 (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) from Mexico, Zootaxa 2224, pp. 60-68 : 67

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.190173

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6226987

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9B788784-7916-FFAB-FF03-FB56FA75F810

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Plazi

scientific name

Kohlsia
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Key to the Mexican species of Kohlsia View in CoL

1. Acetabular region with one long bristle........................................................................................................................ 2

- Acetabular region with more than one long bristle....................................................................................................... 3

2. Crochet with a projection ............................................................................................................................. K. fournieri View in CoL

- Crochet without projection ................................................................................................................................. K. linni View in CoL

3. Postantennal region with four rows of bristle............................................................................................................... 4

- Postantennal region with three rows of bristles ........................................................................................................... 5

4. In males, three antesensilial bristles, uppermost very tiny; movable process almost as long as wide .......... K. martini View in CoL

- In males, two antesensilial bristles, uppermost about three times as long as ventralmost, near to the uppermost a tiny bristle; movable process at least one and a half times longer as wide ........................................... K. zyanya View in CoL sp. nov.

5. With 9–10 spines in pronotal comb; four stout and long setae at the posterior margin of the movable process; sternite VIII well developed .................................................................................................................. K. ahuacatlan View in CoL sp. nov.

- With more than 11 spines in pronotal comb; three stout and long setae at the posterior margin of the movable pro- cess; sternite VIII variable in shape, not hyperdeveloped ........................................................................................... 6

6. Distal arm of sternite IX bilobed bearing one bristle.................................................................................................... 7

- Distal arm of sternite IX not bilobed ............................................................................................................................ 8

7. Sternite VIII large, club-shaped process, apex bearing 5 ventromarginal bristles and two long medial bristles, dorsal margin with a hump, margin proximoventral dentate; distal arm of sternite IX with prominent ventral lobe with four stout marginal bristles and the apical lobe very markedly rounded and three very stout short setae ........... K. keenani View in CoL

- Sternite VIII variable in shape, number and position of bristles, usually broad and short, with two-three apical bris- tles and three-five medial; distal arm of sternite IX with apical lobe bearing three stout marginal spiniform setae .... ....................................................................................................................................................................... K. mojica View in CoL

8. Preantennal region with four rows of bristles; distal arm on sternite IX slender near to apex; apex of sternite VIII subtruncated, with two stout ventromarginal bristles and a patch of about ten very long and slender bristles; fixed

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