Ábrahám Levente (szerk.): Válogatott tanulmányok X. - Natura Somogyiensis 25. (Kaposvár, 2014)

Kahrarian M.: New records of Poduromorpha for the Iranian springtail fauna (Collembola)

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Key to genera and species of Tullbergiidae in Kermanshah province (Iran)

1. Sixth abdominal segment with midventral projection - best seen in ventral view, number of anal spines two, Dorsum of sixth abdominal segment without supplementary spines Genus Metaphorura...................................................................... 5

Sixth abdominal segment without midventral projection

....................................2

2

. Sense organ of third antennal segment with 3 sense clubs, sixth abdominal segment dorsally smooth except for crescentic ridges at anterior border, PAO elongated, with 18-68 vesicles in 2-3 rows Genus Mesaphorura.............................3

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ense organ of third antennal segment with 2 sense clubs, sixth abdominal segment with 1 + 1 dorsolateral spines in front of posterior anal spines, PAO with

6-8 long oval vesicles in 2 rows, first to third abdominal segment with 2 + 2 pseudocell i each, (Genus Fissuraphorura)....................Fissuraphorura duplex

3

. Abd. IV seta pl is microseta, abd. V seta a2 is as long as al, mesothorax medial pseudocelli between p5-m5; abd.VI seta 12' absent, metathorax seta a2 present,

abd. IV seta m5 present.........................................................Mesaphorura italica

Abd. IV seta pi is macroseta,................................................................................4

4. Abd. V seta a2 is as long as al, mesothorax medial pseudocelli between p3-p4, abd.IV seta m5 present, metathorax seta a2 present, abd.VI seta 121 present in the

anal lobe......................................................................Mesaphorura macrochaeta

Abd. V seta a2 absent, mesothorax medial pseudocelli between p5-m5; abd. IV seta m5 absent; abd.VI seta 12’ absent, metathorax seta a2 absent; abd. IV seta m4 absent..................................................................................Mesaphorura hylophila

5. Pseudocellar formula 11/111/11111 ......................................Metaphorura affinis

P

seudocellar formula 11/122/22221 .....................................Metaphorura denisi

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