Disparrhopalites tergestinus(Collembola, Sminthuridae): A new cave species from northeastern Italy

Subterranean Deuteraphorura Absolon, 1901, (Hexapoda, Collembola) of the Western Carpathians — Troglomorphy at the northern distributional limit in Europe

“…The presence of such a hotspot reflects not only the local diversity of troglobionts but may also be associated with the high level of troglomorphy in these obligate subterranean forms. A heterogeneous community of highly troglomorphic collembolan taxa of the families Tomoceridae, Entomobryidae, Arrhopalitidae and Neelidae may occupy the caves of a "hot-spot" area [55,56,57,58,59], while the level of troglomorphy is only moderate in troglobionts at the borders of the distributional range [4,49,53]. Morphological adaptations seem to be the most distinct in Entomobryidae, while basically inconspicuous in Onychiurinae, a subfamily which is "uniform" in general morphology and ecology.…”

On some Collembola from a Sicily cave, with the description of a new species ofSerroderusDelamare, 1948 (Collembola, Cyphoderidae)

“…It has been collected both in open (Dallai 1973;Schleuter 1985) and cave habitats (Dallai and Malatesta 1982;Christian 1998;Bretfeld 1999). For many years the genus was believed to be monospecific with only one species (D. patrizii) (Dallai 1970); however, a new species, D. tergestinus was recently described by Fanciulli et al (2005), from a cave near Trieste (NE Italy). The two species can be easily separated from each other by means of some characters such as: the eye patch, that is absent in D. tergestinus, and is present with eight ocelli in D. patrizii; the number of the subarticles of antennomere IV, that consists of 14 in D. tergestinus but only 12 in D. patrizii; the shape of the hindfoot complex provided with an untoothed claw in D. tergestinus and a toothed claw in D. patrizii.…”

“…Some other notes have also been published concerning the cave collembola from Italy, and four new species have been added to the previous list (Dallai and Sabatini 1981;Nosek and Paoletti, 1981a, 1981b, 1981c. Since these findings, no new cave species from Italy have been described even though some collembolan species, among the general fauna of caves, were reported (Pascutto and Ghielmetti 1996;Pascutto 2003 have been found (Fanciulli 1999;Fanciulli et al 2005), while for another one, Troglopedetes ruffoi Delamare Deboutteville, 1951, a redescription was made (Fanciulli et al 2003).…”

Checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of Turkey

“…Spain appears to be richest country in its springtail fauna (more than 700 species) followed by France (over 600) and Ukraine (over 527) (Ulrich & Fiera, 2009). The Collembolan fauna is well known in several European and some Asian countries, such as Germany (about 430 species; Ulrich & Fiera, 2009;Deharveng, 2007), Italy (420 species; Fanciulli et al 2005;Deharveng, 2007), Bulgaria (175 taxa; Deharveng, 2007), Crete (about 93 species; Ellis, 1976;76 taxa;Deharveng, 2007), Georgia (91 species; Barjadze & Djanashvili, 2008;Barjadze et al 2012aBarjadze et al , 2012b and Iran (112 species; Shayanmehr, Yahyapour, Kahrarian, & Lafooraki, 2013). From the European part of Turkey, Deharveng (2007) listed only one species (Bilobella coiffaiti Cassagnau, 1968).…”