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Keys and Bibliography to the Collembola

Sub-Family Sminthurinae Börner, 1906

Sub-Family Sminthurinae Börner, 1906

Tribe Bourletiellini Börner, 1913

Key to the Genera of the Bourletiellini
1. With a clasping organ consisting of hooks or curved bristles on the genital segment of the male; body globular, rounded dorso-longitudinally Bourletiella Banks, 1899 (90)
Without clasping organ; body more elongate, flattened dorso-longitudinally 2
2. With swellings or protuberances on dorsal surface of body 3
Without swellings or protuberances on dorsal surface of body 4
3. Unguiculus filiform; male with large dome-like swellings on top of head Bovicornia Delamare-Deboutteville, 1947 (319)
Unguiculus replaced by accessory clavate hair; dorsal surface of body with swellings or protuberances Corynephoria Absolon, 1907 (19)
4. With group of strong spines (rastral organ) on hind tibiotarsus 5
Without rastral organ 6
5. Spines of rastral organ simple or serrate and arranged in rows Rastriopes Börner, 1906 (147)
Spines of rastral organ simple and not arranged in rows Prorastriopes Delamare-Deboutteville, 1947 (319)
6. Claw with tunica Eusminthurus Börner, 1900 (135)
Claw without tunica Deuterosminthurus Börner, 1901 (140)
=Deuterosminturus Börner, 1901 (140)

Tribe Sminthurini Börner, 1913

Key to the Genera of the Sminthurini
1. With 4–5 long, strong setae, much longer and stronger than the rest on the basal half of Ant III 2
Without long, strong setae; the setae of Ant III approximately equal; claw without tenent hairs 3page 31
2. Dorsal edges of mucro equal; mucro with or without bristle; dorsal glands absent from furcal segment * Sminthurus Latreille, 1804 (661)
Dorsal edges of mucro unequal; mucro with bristle; furcal segment with two round fine-pored glandular openings on dorsal surface Allacma Börner, 1906 (147)
3. Claw with tunica 4
Claw without tunica Parrhopalites Bonet and Teller, 1947 (134)
4. Genital segment with two bothriotrichia Sphyrotheca Börner, 1906 (147)
Genital segment without bothriotrichia Lipothrix Börner, 1906 (147)

* The original spelling of this generic name as given by Latreille in 1804, when he founded the genus was Smynthurus It would appear to have been derived from the Greek words Sminthos (meaning a mouse) and oura (a tail), in which case the amendment which has been made by most authors to the spelling Sminthurus is grammatically correct and allowable under the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature.