http://www.collembola.org/key/entomdae.htm - Last updated on 2024.02.29 by Frans Janssens
Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the subfamilies of Entomobryidae

This key is still under construction. Note that missing figures will be provided as soon as possible. Currently, the key is in the feasibility study phase to find out how to integrate in the checklist in a modular way a key that has been generated with DELTA.

Felipe N. Soto-Adames, Illinois Natural History Survey, IL 61820, Champaign, USA
Jean-Auguste Barra, Université Louis Pasteur, Laboratoire de Zoologie, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
Kenneth A. Christiansen, Department of Biology, Grinnell College, PO Box V3, Grinnell, IA 50112-0806, USA
Rafael Jordana, Department of Zoology and Ecology, University of Navarra, 31080 Pamplona, Spain
Anne Bedos, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 CNRS, Paris, France
Louis Deharveng, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 CNRS, Paris, France
Feng Zhang, Department of Entomology and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Dan-Dan Sun, Department of Ecology, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Dao-Yuan Yu, Department of Entomology and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Bei-Xin Wang, Department of Entomology and Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Frans Janssens, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, B-2020, Belgium

Rationale

The rationale for taxa used and not used as well as subtaxonomic classification for some taxa is to be provided.

Key

Note that no distinction between subtaxa and taxa is made in the key.

   
1(0). Fourth abdominal segment as long as or longer than 2 times sum
        of first to third abdominal segment.............. Paronellinae
      Fourth abdominal segment shorter than 2 times sum of first to
        third abdominal segment..................................... 2
 
2(1). Body scales absent................................ Entomobryinae
      Body scales present (fig.1).................................. 3
 

Fig.1.
 
3(2). Dental spines absent............................... Willowsiinae 2
      Dental spines present............................. Entomobryinae 3


Endnotes

1 Soto-Adames et al. (2008) place Lepidosinella in Seirinae because Yoshii indicates that in scale and mucro morphology, and in general body shape Lepidosinella most closely resembles Seira. But according to Yoshii (1989), Lepidosinella lacks ventral dental scales and keys out to Willowsiinae in line with Zhang et al. (2014).

2 Although Zhang & Deharveng (2015) dismissed Willowsiini, for convenience, in this checklist, the tribe Willowsiini of Entomobryinae is maintained at subfamily level.

3 Scaled Entomobryinae such as Sinhomidia, Amazhomidia, Acanthocyrtus.



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