http://www.collembola.org/key/szeptyck.htm - Last updated on 2023.07.31 by Frans Janssens
Checklist of the Collembola: Key to the species of Szeptykiella

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.

Feng Zhang, Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Anne Bedos, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 CNRS, Paris, France
Louis Deharveng, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 CNRS, Paris, France
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). First abdominal segment with 4 + 4 central macrosetae; second
        abdominal segment with 4 + 4 macrosetae................... lii
      First abdominal segment with no more than 2 + 2 central
        macrosetae; second abdominal segment with 2 + 2 macrosetae.. 2
 
2(1). First abdominal segment with 1 + 1 central macrosetae; antennae
        less than 1.5 times as long as cephalic diagonal. boulouparica
      First abdominal segment with 2 + 2 central macrosetae; antennae
        more than twice as long as cephalic diagonal...... sinelloides

References