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Issue: Vol. 3980 No. 2: 29 Jun. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.4
Page range: 230–240
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 1

Phylogeny of the genus Willemia (Collembola: Hypogastruridae) and biogeography of the W. buddenbrocki-group with description of a new species from Ivory Coast (western Africa)

Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody, UFR Biosciences, Laboratoire de Zoologie et de Biologie Animale, 22 BP582 Abidjan 22, Côte d'Ivoire
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP50 Entomology, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB – UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, CP50 Entomology, 45 rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France
Poduromorpha identification key South Hemisphere

Abstract

Willemia tondoh sp. nov. from the Ivory Coast (western Africa) is described and illustrated. The new species is the 14th in the buddenbrocki-group and is defined with two large globular sensilla placed in a cavity and covered in part by tegumental fold on antennal segment IV, 7 chaetae on antennal segment I, postantennal organ with 9 vesicles, s-chaetae subcylindrical and acuminate on abdominal terga and chaetae a1 absent on abdominal sternum IV. A phylogeny for all the 46 species of the genus Willemia is proposed. Based on the phylogentic framework, the biogeography of the buddenbrocki-group is discussed. An identification key for all 46 known species of the genus is provided.