Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the species of Metaphorura |
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.
Gabriella Castaño-Meneses,
Laboratorio de Ecologia y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciensas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F.
José G. Palacios-Vargas,
Laboratorio de Ecologia y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Departamento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciensas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F.
György Traser,
Institute of Forest and Wood Protection, University Sopron, H-9401 Ady Endre u. 5. H-9401 Sopron PoB. 132, Hungary.
1(0). Median process spiniform; postantennal organ with 20-25 simple vesicles.................................................... 2 Median process spiniform or stout; postantennal organ with 18-25 bilobated or trilobated vesicles............................ 6 2(1). Thorax i with pseudocelli..................................... 3 Thorax i without pseudocelli.................................. 5 3(2). Body color blue; empodial appendage absent........... triacantha Body color white; empodial appendage setiform................. 4 4(3). Pseudocellar formula 11/111/11111....................... affinis Pseudocellar formula 11/122/22221........................ denisi 5(2). Postantennal organ with 20 vesicles...................... ellisi Postantennal organ with 25 vesicles................... knowltoni 6(1). Empodial appendage absent; thorax i without pseudocelli......... ................................................... bipartita Empodial appendage setiform; thorax i with pseudocelli........ 7 7(6). Pseudocellar formula 11/111/11111........................ incisa Pseudocellar formula not 11/111/11111......................... 8 8(7). Pseudocellar formula 11/111/11121....................... orestia Pseudocellar formula 11/122/22221........................ riozoi