Two new species and new records of Neanuridae (Hexapoda: Collembola) from Brazilian central Amazonia

• Main Authors: Ana Carolina da Rocha Neves, Maria Cleide de Mendonça, Gabriel Costa Queiroz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-04-01
• Series: Zoologia (Curitiba)
• Online Access: https://zoologia.pensoft.net/article/23269/download/pdf/

Two new species of Neanuridae from the Amazon Rainforest of Northern Brazil are described and illustrated. The new species Friesea multiclavata sp. nov. (holotype male in MNRJ: Brazil, Amazonas State) belongs to the reducta-group and represents the first record of Frieseinae for Amazonas State in Brazil. Within Pseudachorutinae, the new species Furculanurida boiuna sp. nov. (holotype male in MNRJ: Brazil, Amazonas State) represents the third species of this genus without eyes and body pigment, together with Furculanurida africana (Massoud, 1963) – type species of the genus – and Furculanurida emucronata Zon et al., 2014, both from Ivory Coast, in Africa. Lastly, an indefinite species of Ectonura sp. (Neanurinae) is the second record of the genus for the Neotropical Region.