Miguel Gaju Ricart

New data for a revision of the genus Ctenolepisma (Zygentoma: Lepismatidae): redescription of Ctenolepisma lineata and new status for Ctenolepisma nicoletii

Abstract As a starting point for the revision of the genus Ctenolepisma Escherich 1905, the status of its type-species, Ctenolepisma lineata (Fabricius 1775), is clarified. In the present study, this species (originally described from Switzerland) is redescribed by means of many samples from several European countries and a neotype is designated. The constant presence of a third pair of abdominal styli in adult C. lineata s. str. leads to abandon the obsolete name C. lineata var. pilifera (Lucas 1840) for referring to a presumed non-typical variety of this species. The status of Lepisma pilifera Lucas 1840 is discussed, concluding that this name must be treated as a new synonym of Thermobia aegyptiaca (Lucas 1840). After our redefinition of the characters of C. lineata, an examination of many specimens of Ctenolepisma that were previously identified as C. lineata reveals that some of them are actually members of different taxa. This is the case for a species occurring in the Canary Islands, Northwest Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. In this work this species is ascribed to Lepisma nicoletii Lucas 1846, which was described from Algeria and regarded as a synonym of Ctenolepisma lineata by Escherich; this species is now redescribed as Ctenolepisma nicoletii stat. res. This species differs from C. lineata in that it bears only two pairs of abdominal styli, and it also differs in the shape of the prosternum and femoral scales. Lepisma eatoni Ridley 1881, which was described from Morocco and the Canary Islands and subsequently regarded as synonym of C. lineata, is now synonymised with C. nicoletii.

Contribución al conocimiento de los Araneae de Sierra Morena central. Familias: Clubionidae, Sparassidae, Philodromidae y Thomisidae

espanolEn este trabajo se ofrece una relacion de nuevas localidades de diversas especies de Clubionoidea y Thomisoidea. Ceto laticeps se cita por primera vez para la Peninsula Iberica. Oxytila bouderi es una nueva cita para Espana. Con ello se amplian considerablemente los datos faunisticos, tanto para la zona de estudio (23 especies son nuevas citas), como para la Peninsula Iberica. EnglishThis paper gives a check-list of the species of Clubionoidea and Thomisoidea found in the Bembezars river. It is the first time that Ceto laticeps has been found in the Iberian Peninsula. Oxytila bouderi had been found in Portugal but not in Spain. Of the 25 species studied, all but two, are new for the area.