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- - The study focuses on Antarctic collembolan species, specifically re-evaluating their physical and molecular traits due to increasing interest in them.
- - The researchers designate a neotype for Folsomotoma octooculata and provide a detailed description of its morphological features, particularly its sensory structures.
- - They also offer a systematic key for identifying different species within the Folsomotoma genus based on new and previously collected morphological data.
Article Abstract
The growing interest in Antarctic collembolan species has led us to re-evaluate both the morphological and molecular aspects of different species adapted to the extreme Antarctic environment. The genus Folsomotoma includes nine species mainly distributed in Antarctic and subantarctic areas and a few additionally from Australia and South America. We herein designate the neotype of Folsomotoma octooculata (Willem 1901) and redescribe its morphological characters with particular emphasis on the sensory and ordinary chaetotaxy. Furthermore, based on analyses of both our new and previously published morphological data for F. octooculata, we propose a systematic key of the species for the genus.
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