Lepidosira baojiensis, 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

Lepidosira baojiensis comb. et nom. nov.

Willowsia flava Zhou, Pan & Ma, 2021: 74, junior homonym of Lepidosira flava ( Salmon, 1938).

Etymology.

The name is composed of the locality name Baoji plus the Latin suffix – “ - ensis, ” meaning pertaining or originating, referring to its locality, Baoji City.

Diagnosis.

Blue pigment absent on dorsal body; Ant. IV with bilobed apical bulb; head with three mac on Gr. II; Th II with three (m 1, m 2, m 2 i) medio-medial, three medio-sublateral (m 4, m 4 i, m 4 p), and 22–23 posterior mac; Th. III to Abd. IV respectively with 12–13, 7, 6, 3, and 16–20 central mac; Abd. III with five lateral mac.

Remarks.

After checking the type material of this species, we confirm that there are scales on the dentes and no blunt chaetae on the manubrial plates. Hence, we propose its transfer to Lepidosira herein. As a consequence, Willowsia flava Zhou, Pan & Ma, 2021 , becomes a junior secondary homonym of Lepidosira flava ( Salmon, 1938) . Thus, the new replacement name, Lepidosira baojiensis comb. et nom. nov., is being proposed herein.