| Dicyrtomina turbotti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Collembola |
| Order: | Symphypleona |
| Family: | Dicyrtomidae |
| Genus: | Dicyrtomina |
| Species: | D. turbotti |
| Binomial name | |
| Dicyrtomina turbotti Salmon, 1948 | |
Dicyrtomina turbotti is a species of springtail belonging to the family Dicyrtomidae. The species was first described by John Salmon in 1948, and is endemic to Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands in New Zealand.
Taxonomy
The species was identified by Salmon in 1948, based on a specimen collected from leaf mould in the Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands by Evan Graham Turbott in 1946. Salmon named the species after Turbott.
Description
Salmon's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
Colour: Pale-yellow with purplish antennae, darkest towards tips; ocellar fields dark purple to black.
Clothing: Occasional simple setae with spines on top of head and around posterior of abdomen; dens with four pairs of ventral setae, numerous basal spine-like setae and an apical girdle of short, stout spines; legs sparsely clothed with short simple setae; four moderately long lasiotrichia to each side of abdomen, the upper bothriotrich on each side carries two lasiotrichia. Body: Length, up to 0.8 mm (0.031 in). Antennae one-third as long again as head, the four segments related as 35 :100:145 :62; segments II and III (particularly the latter) with swellings and protuberances and sparsely clothed with stout simple setae; Ant. II with either a single or a pair of short exposed sense rods at one-third from base, a larger central sense rod with, usually, a pair of shorter ones and either a single or a pair of moderately long, straight, sub-apical sense rods; Ant. IIT sub-apically with a pair of long, curved, exposed sense rods and having each protuberance bearing a small sense rod; Ant. IV clothed with numerous long curved setae and supplied with a small apical finger and 9-10 short straight sense rods. Ocelli eight to each side, the central one very small. Legs: Claw finely granulate without tunica and without inner tooth but with a pair of strong outer teeth at four-fifths down; unguiculus two-thirds to three-quarters as long as claw, with narrow outer lamella and broad angular inner lamella bearing a prominent spine at angle, the apical bristle filamentous on fore and middle feet much over-reaching tip of claw, short and bristle-like on hind feet but still over-reaching claw tip; a short basal seta to each side of claw.
Furcula: Manubrium: dens: mucro as 20 45:13: Mucro broadly spathulate, distinctly granulate and coarsely serrated along both edges and round apex.
Distribution and habitat
The species is endemic to New Zealand, found in the Manawatāwhi / Three Kings Islands.
References
- ^ "Dicyrtomina turbotti Salmon, 1948". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- ^ Salmon, J. T. (1948). "Collembola from the Three Kings Islands with a Description of Proisotomina, New Genus". Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum. 3: 291–300. ISSN 0067-0464. JSTOR 42906017. Wikidata Q58676664.
- "Dicyrtomina turbotti". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
- Gill, B. J.; Thwaites, I. G.; Wolfe, R. J. (2015). "Evan Graham Turbott M.Sc., Q.S.O. Ornithologist, museum director – 1914–2014". Records of the Auckland Museum. 50: 77–84. ISSN 1174-9202. JSTOR 90014736. Wikidata Q58628992.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Dicyrtomina turbotti | |