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Zoology Publications from Victoria University of Wellington—Nos. 49 to 51

Family: Entomobryidae Tomosvary, 1882 — Subfamily: Entomobryinae Schaeffer, 1896 — Genus: Setogaster Salmon, 1951 — Setogaster manipuri n.sp

Family: Entomobryidae Tomosvary, 1882
Subfamily: Entomobryinae Schaeffer, 1896
Genus: Setogaster Salmon, 1951

Setogaster manipuri n.sp.

Figs. 35-38.

Colour: Pale yellow with violet pigmented ocellar fields.

Clothing: Of hyaline lightly striated scales and ciliated setae.

Body: Length: ♀ up to 1 mm, ♂ up to 1.3 mm. The antennae annulated on III-IV in female and on IV only in male. Ant. IV with short plain sensory setae, short ciliated setae apically, and longer ciliated setae proximally. Ant. III with longer ciliated setae and occasional long slender plain setae. Ocellar fields each with six large anterior subequal ocelli and two much smaller posterior ones to each side; several short stout ciliated setae arise within each ocellar field. Abd. IV four times longer than Abd. III. Rami of tenaculum each with four barbs.

Legs: Claw lightly but distinctly granulated around base; unguiculus strongly and markedly granulate all over and, in female, lanceolate, with four widely spaced serrations down outer lamella (Fig. 35); in male, truncate, with outer edge finely crennate (Fig. 38). Claw with a pair of strong outer lateral teeth; five inner teeth in male and six inner teeth in female arranged as in Figs. 38 and 35; the proximal pair of teeth in female just beyond half-way down inner edge, and, in male at about half-way down. A slender very faintly clavate tenent hair, shorter than claw, to each foot.

Furcula: Reaching forward to ventral tube. Manubrium and dens subequal in female but the dens slightly longer in male. Dens annulated and corrugated; the mucro with very prominent, slightly curved, double basal spine as in Fig. 36. Lamella serrated, extending across mucro-dens junction to base of sub-apical tooth. Uncorrugatcd portion of dens 2.5-3 times length of mucro.

Locality: Manipur; Moraing, 2600′ altitude; in dead leaves and in grass at edge of a wood.

Types: Holotype and Allotype on separate slides in British Museum Natural History.