Edoughnura, Deharveng, Hamra-Kroua & Bedos, 2007

Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Zoughailech, Abdelmalek, Brahim-Bounab, Hayette, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2018, Annotated checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Collo massif, northeastern Algeria, Zoosystema 40 (16), pp. 389-414 : 398

Edoughnura sp.

( Fig. 7 )

NEW DATA. — One species of Edoughnura , new to science, has been found in the Collo massif.

DISTRIBUTION. — The genus Edoughnura was so far represented by a single species ( E. rara Deharveng, Hamra-Kroua & Bedos, 2007 ) endemic to the Edough massif.

REMARK

Rather frequent in our samples. The genus Edoughnura is morphologically very isolated in the tribe Neanurini by the modification of the distal tooth of its mandibles into a long ciliated flagellum, as well as by several chaetotaxic features. The undescribed species of Collo differs from E. rara from Edough by several important characters, such as the tubercle Af not fused with CL on head (vs fused), the dorso-internal tubercles of Abd. IV not fused on the axis (vs fused) and the presence of 2 +2 dorso-internal chaetae on abd. V (vs 3 +3).

Figures

FIG. 7. — Edoughnura sp. Body size: 0.7 mm.