Sinella gei Pan, Zhang & Shi 2012

Sinella gei Pan, Zhang & Shi, 2012 Figs 4, 41��� 42, Table 2 Type locality. China, Qinghai, Xining. Material examined. Male holotype and 2 female paratypes; female on slide and 2 in alcohol, China: Liaoning Province: Shengyang City: Zhaoling Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty, 41.850 ��N, 123.428 ��E, alt. 58 m, in the litter under buddhist pine trees, 15.viii. 2014, F Zhang, DY Yu and ZH Li leg. (# 14 SY). Additions to original description. Clypeal chaetae 8 and arranged in three rows, 3 of them ciliate and smaller (Fig. 41). Cephalic groove with 7 chaetae, anterior four smooth and posterior three ciliate; the anterior two ciliate ones much smaller (Fig. 42). Distribution. Qinghai, Liaoning. Remarks. All three 5 + 5 eyed species of Sinella share eye arrangement (D, G, H absent), rod-like chaetae 2 and 3 on Ant. III organ, lateral process of labial palp exceeding the papilla, ciliate post-labial chaetae X, X 2, and X 4, three inner ungula teeth and a large outer tooth on unguiculus, ���smooth��� inner differentiated tibiotarsal chaetae, absence of smooth chaetae on manubrium, smooth part of dens slightly longer than mucro, short mucronal spine, 5 sutural cephalic mac, 3 medio-medial and 3 medio-lateral mac on Th. II, 1 + 1 central and 3 + 3 lateral mac on Abd. III, and 7 + 7 central and 6 + 6 lateral mac on Abd. IV. S. gei can be separated from the others by chaetotaxy of Th. II��� Abd. II (Table 2). The distance between antero-lateral S-chaetae ms and sens is longer than in other Sinella species.
Published as part of Ding, Yin-Huan & Zhang, Feng, 2015, Contribution to the eyed Sinella from China: two new species and additional reports on nine known species (Collembola: Entomobryidae), pp. 474-490 in Zootaxa 3973 (3) on pages 483-485, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/236330
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