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Bionychiurus tamilensis

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Bionychiurus tamilensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Collembola
Order: Poduromorpha
Family: Onychiuridae
Genus: Bionychiurus
Species:
B. tamilensis
Binomial name
Bionychiurus tamilensis
Thunnisa et al., 2021

Bionychiurus tamilensis is a species of the family Onychiuridae, a group of springtails.[1] Bionychiurus tamilensis has a dorsal pseudocellus (pso) formula as 32/133/33343 and a ventral pso formula as 11/011/11121. It was recorded from the Nilgiri Hills, Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve of Western Ghats, India. The status as new species of the genus Bionychiurus was confirmed molecular studies.[2]

References

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  1. ^ Lubbock, John (1870). "XII. Notes on the Thysanura.-Part IV". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 27 (2): 277–297. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1870.tb00214.x.
  2. ^ Thunnisa, Abu Muhsina; Sumithra, Nallathambi; Narmatha, Senthilkumar; Jyothi, Manikkiri; Sanil, Ravindranathanpillai (2021-02-02). "First record of genus Bionychiurus Pomorski 1996 (Collembola: Onychiuridae) from India". doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-156881/v1. S2CID 234033782. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)