New Onychiurinae from Crimea (Collembola: Onychiuridae)

Abstract

Two new taxa of Onychiurinae, collected in the Crimean Mountains, are described and illustrated. Micraphorura daii sp. n., lives in litter of beech forests and among roots of grasses on subalpine meadows. It is characterised by reduction of furca to an area of fine granulation with 1 + 1 setulae posteriorly (without cuticular furrow) and only 6 setae in distal verticil on tibiotarsi. Both characters are exceptional among Oligaphorurinae. I instar larva of M. daii sp. n. is described. Protaphorura ajudagi sp. n. commonly lives in humid litter of beech and oak forests. It belongs to a group of Protaphorura species without pseudocelli on subcoxae 1 and characterised by specific structure of male ventral organ.