Szeptyckitheca implicata ( Huether , 1967)

Bellini, Bruno Cavalcante, Oliveira, Mariana Fernandes De, Weiner, Wanda Maria, Nunes, Rudy Camilo & Medeiros, Gleyce Da Silva, 2023, Revisiting Szeptyckitheca Betsch & Weiner (Collembola, Symphypleona, Sminthuridae): new species, updated diagnoses, and a key, ZooKeys 1186, pp. 139-174 : 139

Szeptyckitheca implicata ( Huether, 1967)

Sphyrotheca implicata Hüther, 1967: 252.

Diagnosis.

Dark yellowish ground, with dark purple spots and two longitudinal stripes on the dorsal large abdomen, appendages pale purple. Ant. IV with 11 subsegments; Ant. II with more than eight chaetae, none of them clearly longer than the others; Ant. I with five chaetae. Eyepatches with one regular interocular chaeta each. Head vertex with a total of 16 large spines, two of them unpaired; unpaired chaeta A1 present; secondarily reduced chaetae near the spines absent. Trochanters I-III with 1,1,1 spines, respectively, all blunt; trochanter III with five regular chaetae other than the spine. Ungues with a single inner tooth, with tunica and weak pseudonychia; unguiculus I with the internal tooth; unguiculus III filament thin and not reaching the tip of the unguis III. Large abdomen dorsally with several capitate mac. Female with a long subanal appendage (surpassing the ventral anal valves), acuminate, apically serrated. Manubrium with 7+7 chaetae, dens ventral chaetotaxy formula from the apex to the base as: 2,2 … 1, dorsal chaetotaxy with 19 chaetae; mucronal notch prominent (adapted from Hüther 1967).

Habitat.

Specimens were found associated to bushes ( Hüther 1967).

Known distribution.

South Sudan ( Hüther 1967).