Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the subgenera of Seira

http://www.collembola.org/key/seirasg.htm - Last updated on 2024.08.30 by Frans Janssens

Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the subgenera of Seira

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.

Nikolas Gioia Cipola, Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil.
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). Manubrium and dens of furca with dorsal blunt modified setae (fig.1)........................................ Lepidocyrtinus Manubrium and dens of furca without dorsal blunt modified setae. ........................................................... 2

Fig.1.

2(1). Dens with dorsal basal swelling (fig.2)............... Afroseira Dens without dorsal basal swelling........................ Seira

Fig.2.


1(0). Manubrium and dens of furca with dorsal blunt modified setae (fig.1)........................................ Lepidocyrtinus Manubrium and dens of furca without dorsal blunt modified setae. ........................................................... 2
Fig.1.
2(1). Dens with dorsal basal swelling (fig.2)............... Afroseira Dens without dorsal basal swelling........................ Seira
Fig.2.

http://www.collembola.org/key/seirasg.htm - Last updated on 2024.08.30 by Frans Janssens

Rationale

Key

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