A new relictual and highly troglomorphic species of Tomoceridae (Collembola) from a deep Croatian cave

Tritomurus veles sp. n. (Tomoceridae) is described from a Croatian cave. It is characterized by troglomorphic features (absence of eyes, reduced pigmentation, slender claw, pointed tibiotarsal tenent hairs) that only compare, among Tomoceridae, to the microendemic species T. falcifer from the Pyr&am...

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Main Authors: Marko Lukić, Céline Houssin, Louis Deharveng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2010-11-01
Series:ZooKeys
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Online Access:http://zookeys.pensoft.net/lib/ajax_srv/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=2464