ON AN ANOMALOUS SPECIMEN OF ACERENTOMON DODEROI SILVESTRI, 1907 (PROTURA: ACERENTOMIDAE)

Abstract

A praeimago specimen belonging to genus Acerentomon - doderoi group collected in Sestri Levante (NW-Italy) shows a set of morphological characters that led us to attribute it to an hypothetic new species. In this note we compare such specimen with others from the same locality and with the other species belonging to genus Acerentomon, concluding that it must be considered an anomalous Acerentomon doderoi with additional setae (d6) on the head.