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A NEW SPECIES OF THE BRISTLETAIL GENUS ALLOPSONTUS SILVESTRI, 1911 (MICROCORYPHIA, MACHILIDAE) FROM SOUTHWESTERN KAZAKHSTAN
- Authors: Kaplin V.G1
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- All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection
- Issue: Vol 104, No 12 (2025)
- Pages: 33–40
- Section: ARTICLES
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0044-5134/article/view/375836
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034545625120047
- ID: 375836
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Abstract
Allopsontus artaevi sp. n. is described as the only species in the genus, in which the compound eyes of males and females are not in touch. The new species belongs to the subgenus Allopsontus s. str., which presently includes 23 species. In males and females of this subgenus, the coxites of abdominal segments II–V have two pairs of eversible vesicles, and the ovipositor of females is long, slender, and segmented, without digging spines. Among them, in males of A. artaevi sp. n. and seven other described species of this subgenus, the surface of segments 2 to 7 of the maxillary palps and segments 2 and 3 of the labial palps have numerous, pigmented, small, appressed setae. The new species differs from them in eye color, the structure of the sensory field on the male fore femora, and other characteristics. A. artaevi sp. n. seems to be especially similar to both A. tauricus Kaplin, 2024 and A. stepposus Kaplin, 2024 from Crimea in pigment distribution, eye color, and daily activity, but differs in the structure of the visual organs and the maxillary and labial palps.
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V. G Kaplin
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection
Email: ctenolepisma@mail.ru
Pushkin, Russia
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