A new species of silverfsh of the genus Sceletolepisma Wygodzinsky, 1955 (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae) from Oman
A new species Sceletolepisma omanicum sp. n. from the Sultanate of Oman in West Asia on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula is described and illustrated. Te species is related to similar species S. maroccanum (Mendes, 1980), S. picturatum (Wygodzinsky, 1955), S. weberi (Escherich, 1905)...
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| Language: | English |
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Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Science, Federal state budgetary institution
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень |
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| Online Access: | https://ceb.ssc-ras.ru/uploads/files/2024/12/12/10_Kaplin.pdf |
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| Summary: | A new species Sceletolepisma omanicum sp. n. from the Sultanate of Oman in West Asia on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula is described and illustrated. Te species is related to similar species S. maroccanum (Mendes, 1980), S. picturatum (Wygodzinsky, 1955), S. weberi (Escherich, 1905) and S. kervillei (Silvestri, 1911) from Africa, Syria, Iran and Oman, difering in body length, number of bristle combs on thoracic sterna, chaetotaxy of urosternites and the shape of tergite X. Prosternum of S. omanicum sp. n. with 4 + 4 distal; urosternite I without, urosternites III–VIII with 1 + 1 sublateral and II–VI with one medial bristle combs. |
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| ISSN: | 1814-3326 2713-1785 |