Rambutanura hunanensis Jiang & Dong, 2018

Jiang, Ji-Gang, Huang, Cheng-Wang & Luan, Yun-Xia, 2018, A new species of Lobellina and first record of Vietnura from China (Collembola: Neanuridae: Neanurinae), ZooKeys 807, pp. 13-28 : 26-27

Rambutanura hunanensis Jiang & Dong, 2018

Rambutanura hunanensis Jiang & Dong, 2018: 377-386, figs 1 -14 (China)

Material.

One juvenile, body length 2.2 mm, on slide; two specimens in alcohol, probably juvenile. Maolan National Nature Reserve, Libo County, Guizhou Province, China, 25°16.400'N, 107°53.864'E, ca. 890 m above sea level. 19 July 2015. Collected by Cheng-Wang Huang, Yan Liang, and Ai-Min Liu.

Diagnosis.

The specimen from Libo County is characterized by its body without long digitate tubercles and tertiary granules, 2+2 depigmented eyes, mandible with four teeth, maxilla styliform, head with eight tubercles (Cl, Af, 2 Oc, 2 Di+De, 2 Dl+L+So), claw with a big inner tooth, and ventral tube with 5-6 chaetae. These characters are similar to those of Rambutanura hunanensis Jiang & Dong, 2018 from Hunan Province; however, the presence of only four chaetae on genital plate reveals the immaturity of the Maolan specimens.

Remarks.

The distribution of R. hunanensis is given in Fig. 16. The species has been collected from other localities in China, such as Huping Mountain, Shimen County, Hunan Province (unpublished). It is probably widely distributed in central and southwest China.