A new species of Mucrosomia (Collembola: Isotomidae) from Brazil

Springtails (Collembola) Associated with Nests of Fungus-Growing Ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) in Southern Bahia, Brazil

“…Nevertheless, we found that C. agnotus was associated with S. bondari (Hymentopera: Formicidae), whereas C. similis was associated with T. cornetzi. Mucrosomia (Iso tomidae: Anurophorinae) was recorded for the first time in ant nests; until now this genus has been found in Brazil only by Mendonça and Queiroz (2013) in mountains of the southeast of the country, whereas the other 3 known species occur in Europe (Potapov 2001). The species Proisotoma minima (Collembola: Isotomidae) has been recorded once previously associated with Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant nests found in cacao pods (Castaño-Meneses et al 2014).…”

A Catalogue of Species of Collembola (Hexapoda: Ellipura) Deposited in Coleção de Referência de Fauna de Solo of the Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Brazil

“…With the increasing number of descriptions of new taxa and faunistic surveys, in the last few years, that number has increased to 315 species in 98 genera of 21 families. The new supraspecific records are as follows: Mucrosomia Bagnall, 1949 (Mendonça & Queiroz 2013); Varelasminthurus Silva, Palacios-Vargas & Bellini, 2015(Silva et al 2015; Isotogastrura Thibaud & Najt, 1992 (new record for Isotogastruridae) (Palacios-Vargas et al 2013;Silveira et al 2014); and Collophora Richards in Delamare Deboutteville & Massoud, 1964 (new record for Collophoridae) (Zeppelini & Brito 2013).…”