Acerentulus tortii sp. nov. from Greece (Protura: Acerentomidae)

Abstract

A new species of Protura, Acerentulus tortii sp. nov., from the island of Euboea, central Greece, is described and illustrated. The new species belongs to the A. cunhai species group, based on a short foretarsal sensillum a not reaching seta γ3, and sensilla b and c subequal in length. The most similar species are A. christensoni (Ewing, 1940) and A. rafalskii Szeptycki, 1979), from which A. tortii sp. nov. differs by the porotaxy of sternite III and the lengths of various foretarsal sensilla.

Is Acerentomon italicum Nosek, 1969 (Protura: Acerentomidae) a species complex?

“…However, Table 3 shows that females are on average slightly bigger than males. This size difference was evidenced also in other species of Acerentomidae like Acerentulus shrubovychae Galli & Capurro, 2013 and Acerentulus tortii Galli et al, 2017. The existence of species complexes in Protura was already suggested by Fratello & Sabatini (1989) on the basis of differences between kariotypes of different Eosentomon transitorium Berlese, 1908a populations. A species-level diversifi cation can also be assumed for allopatric populations of some species that were likely separated by ancient vicariance events, as it is the case in the amphi-Atlantic Delamarentulus tristani (Silvestri, 1938) (see Galli & Rellini, 2020).…”

The diversity of Protura (Arthropoda, Hexapoda) in the Mediterranean area

“…Acerentulus shrubovychae Galli & Capurro, 2013 NW (Italy) Galli, 2022;Galli & Capurro, 2013 Acerentulus silvanus Szeptycki, 1991 Macaronesia (Canary Islands) Galli, 2022;Szeptycki, 2004Szeptycki, 2007 Acerentulus terricola Rusek, 1965 NW (Italy) Galli, 2022;Galli et al, 2011 Acerentulus tolosanus Nosek, 1969NW (Spain, France) Condé, 1954bGalli, 2022;Nosek, 1969bNosek, , 1973Szeptycki, 2007 Acerentulus tortii Galli, Capurro, Lionetti & Zinni, 2017 NE (Greece) Galli, 2022;Galli et al, 2017 Acerentulus traegardhi Ionescu, 1937 NW, NE (Spain, France, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece) Aldaba, 1984;Condé, 1945;Cvijoivić, 1970Cvijoivić, , 1973Cvijoivić, , 1974bDematteis, 1972;Galli, 2022;Galli et al, 2011;Nosek, 1973Nosek, , 1978Szeptycki, 2007Baculentulus macqueeni (Bernard, 1975 2 Macaronesia (Canary Islands) Galli, 2022;Szeptycki, 2004Szeptycki, , 2007 Berberentulus berberus (Condé, 1948) NW, NE, SW, SE (France, Greece, Morocco, Algeria, Israel) Broza et al, 1996;Condé, 1948Condé, , 1951bCondé, , 1952Galli, 2022;Nosek, 1973Nosek, , 1978…”

A new species of Acerentulus Berlese, 1908 (Protura, Acerentomata, Acerentomidae) from Bulgaria with a revised key to the confinis group

“…Several species, noted as “species inquirendae” in Szeptycki (2007), are not placeable; type materials were lost for Acerentulus americanus Hilton, 1943 and A. shensiensis Chou & Yang, 1964, and A. aubertoti Condé, 1944 was described from a prelarva (see Tuxen 1955, Szeptycki 2007). Since Szeptycki (2007) additional species have been described, bringing the current total to 48 species (Wu and Yin 2007, Shrubovych et al 2012, 2014b, Galli and Capurro 2013, Galli et al 2017). Distributions and taxonomic differentiation between the 21 species within the confinis group was discussed previously (Shrubovych et al 2012).…”