A new European species of Ceratophysella (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) revealed by morphological data and DNA barcodes

Dariusz Skarżyński; Adrian Smolis; Ľubomír Kováč; David Porco

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1021.63147

A new European species of Ceratophysella (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) revealed by morphological data and DNA barcodes

Zookeys. 2021 Mar 1:1021:1-18. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1021.63147. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Dariusz Skarżyński¹, Adrian Smolis¹, Ľubomír Kováč², David Porco³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Environmental Biology, Department of Invertebrate Biology, Evolution and Conservation, University of Wrocław, Przybyszewskiego 65, 51-148, Wrocław, Poland University of Wrocław Wrocław Poland.
² Department of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Moyzesova 11, 041 54, Košice, Slovakia Pavol Jozef Šafárik University Košice Slovakia.
³ Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, 25 rue Munster, 2160, Luxembourg, Luxembourg Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle Luxembourg Luxembourg.

Abstract

A new species, Ceratophysella stachi, from Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine is described based on morphological data and DNA barcodes. It belongs to a small European group of species with type B chaetotaxy and strong tegumentary granulation with distinct fields of coarse granules: C. granulata Stach, 1949, C. lawrencei (Gisin, 1963), C. neomeridionalis (Nosek & Červek, 1970), C. scotica (Carpenter & Evans, 1899), and C. silvatica Rusek, 1964. It differs from all of them in the chaetotaxy of lateral parts of thoracic terga II-III (setae m₆ present and one additional seta outside lateral sensillum m₇ present or absent) that is exceptional within the whole C. armata-group. Notes on closely related species C. granulata are also given.

Keywords: COI sequences; Ceratophysella granulata; Ceratophysella stachi sp. nov.; Springtails; integrative taxonomy.

Dariusz Skarżyński, Adrian Smolis, Ľubomír Kováč, David Porco.