TY - JOUR
T1 - Description of a second south american species in the malagasy earwig genus mesodiplatys from a cave habitat, with notes on the definition of haplodiplatyidae (Insecta, dermaptera)
AU - Kamimura, Yoshitaka
AU - Ferreira, Rodrigo L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to the team at the Center of Studies in Subterranean Biology at the Federal University of Lavras (CEBS/UFLA) for their efforts during sampling. We also thank Martin Husemann and Thure Dalsgaard for their help in taking photographs of the specimens at ZMH, and Petr Kočárek, Leonid N. Anisyutkin, and Masaru Ni-shikawa for useful comments on a previous version of the manuscript. This study was partly supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) research grants (Kakenhi Nos. 15H04409 [head, Kazunori Yoshizawa] and 15K07133) to YK and a CNPq grant (n.304682/2014-4 from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) to RLF.
Publisher Copyright:
© Y. Kamimura, R.L. Ferreira.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The genus Mesodiplatys (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae) comprises eight species from Madagascar and one species from Peru. Based on a sample collected from a cave in Brazil, a new species of this genus, Mesodiplatys falcifer Kamimura, sp. n., is described as the second species from South America. Based on a reexamina-tion of the holotype of Mesodiplatys insularis, a revised key to Mesodiplatys species is provided. The definitions of the genera Mesodiplatys and Haplodiplatys and the family Haplodiplatyidae are also reconsidered.
AB - The genus Mesodiplatys (Dermaptera: Diplatyidae) comprises eight species from Madagascar and one species from Peru. Based on a sample collected from a cave in Brazil, a new species of this genus, Mesodiplatys falcifer Kamimura, sp. n., is described as the second species from South America. Based on a reexamina-tion of the holotype of Mesodiplatys insularis, a revised key to Mesodiplatys species is provided. The definitions of the genera Mesodiplatys and Haplodiplatys and the family Haplodiplatyidae are also reconsidered.
KW - Brazil
KW - Cave insects
KW - Haplodiplatys
KW - Madagascar
KW - Mesodiplatys falcifer spN
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U2 - 10.3897/zookeys.790.27193
DO - 10.3897/zookeys.790.27193
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055619715
SN - 1313-2989
VL - 2018
SP - 87
EP - 100
JO - ZooKeys
JF - ZooKeys
IS - 790
ER -