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Lepidocyrtinus capensis

Lepidocyrtinus capensis (Womersley, 1934)

Co-types in SAMC (slide 82 and 83 according to Coates 1968)

Type locality: Matroosberg 3500 feet Jan 1917 (Ceres side, Farm Laken Vallei, K.H. Barnard leg)

Seira capensis SAM ENW-C009596 front

 

Seira capensis SAM ENW-C009596 back

Nikolas Gioia Cipola, José Wellington de Morais & Bruno Cavalcante Bellini (2020) Review of Lepidocyrtinus Börner, 1903 (Collembola, Entomobryidae, Seirinae): the African species. Zootaxa 4898, 1-110. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4898.1.1

Womersley H (1934) On some Collembola-Arthropleona from South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Annals of the South African Museum 30: 441–475.

Yosii R (1959) Collembolan fauna of the Cape Province, with special reference to the genus Seira Lubbock. Special Publication from the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory. Biological results from the Japanese Antarctic Research Expeditions 6: 3–24.

Coates TJ (1968b) The Collembola of South Africa – 2: The Genus Seira. Journal of the Entomological Society of Southern Africa 31: 435–462. 

 

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