• Title of article

    Description of a new species with three new records of Tomocerus Nicolet (Collembola: Tomoceridae) from India

  • Author/Authors

    Mandal ، Guru Pada Zoological Survey of India , Kumari ، Simran Zoological Survey of India , Mandal ، Pritha Zoological Survey of India , Roy ، Koushik Kumar Zoological Survey of India , Suman ، Kusumendra Kumar Zoological Survey of India , Bhattacharya ، Kaushik Kumar Zoological Survey of India

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    755
  • To page
    768
  • Abstract
    One new species and three new records of Tomocerus have been reported for the first time from India. The new species Tomocerus sikkimensis sp. nov. discovered from Gangtok, Sikkim (India) has been illustrated and described here. The new species differs from others in dental spine number, arrangement and mucro teeth number. Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) qinae Yu, Yan Liu, 2016, Tomocerus (Tomocerus) minor (Lubbock, 1862) and Tomocerus (Ocreatomurus) paraspinulus Gong, Qin Yu, 2018 are the first time reported from the Indian states Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal respectively. A key to the Indian species of Tomocerus has also been provided.
  • Keywords
    Eastern Himalayas , fauna , key , new species , Tomocerus sikkimensis
  • Journal title
    Journal of Insects Biodiversity and Systematics
  • Journal title
    Journal of Insects Biodiversity and Systematics
  • Record number

    2779007