http://www.collembola.org/key/neanidae.htm - Last updated on 2008.07.31 by Frans Janssens

Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the subfamilies of Neanuridae

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.

Peter F. Bellinger (), Department of Biology, California State University, Northridge, CA 91330, USA
Kenneth A. Christiansen, Department of Biology, Grinnell College, PO Box V3, Grinnell, IA 50112-0806, USA
Louis Deharveng, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Terrestre, UMR 5552 du CNRS, UPS, Toulouse Cedex 4, 31062, France
Frans Janssens, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, B-2020, Belgium

Rationale

Key

1(0). Furca absent; s chaetotaxy of fourth antennal segment eight and
        no ms; sixth abdominal segment bilobed or truncated......... 2
      Furca present or absent; s chaetotaxy of fourth antennal segment
        different from eight and no ms; sixth abdominal segment
        usually not bilobed nor truncated........................... 3

2(1). Postantennal organ absent............................ Neanurinae
      Postantennal organ moruliform, large................ Morulininae

3(1). Furca absent; body with digitations variously arranged, but not
        of the neanurin type............................ Uchidanurinae 1
      Furca absent or present; body without digitations............. 4

4(3). Head and first thoracic segment dorsally fused; furca absent....
         ............................................. Caputanurininae 1
      Head and first thoracic segment dorsally separate; furca present
        or absent................................................... 5

5(4). Maxilla head triangular, characteristic.............. Frieseinae
      Maxilla head not triangular.................... Pseudachorutinae 2

Endnotes

¹ Needs to be redefined.

² Not monophyletic.

References