Hypogastrura satkosiaensis

Ecology. In moss, leaf litter of tree trunk of tall trees or moist and blackish soil, in dry mixed deciduous forest, dominated by Bamboo (Family Bambuseae) and shala (Shorea robusta) trees, surrounded by Mahanadi River which in turn influences the habitat landscape of the Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary.

Description. Size. Maximum body length up to 1.7 mm. Color. Dorsum of body violet-black, antennae, legs, furcula slightly paler. Eye patches dark. Dorsal side paler (Figs 1 a & b). Tegument. Tegumentary granulation coarse, 7 – 8 granules between p 1 chaetae (“ a ” number after Yosii 1960) on Abd V (Fig. 22). Weak differentiation between microchaetae and macrochaetae; macrochaetae slightly long, ciliated (Fig. 17). Antennae. Antennae short, 0.90 – 0.95 and 0.20 – 0.25 times as long as cephalic diagonal and body length respectively. Ratio of length of antennal segments I: II: III: IV = 1: 1.5: 1.5: 2.0. Ant IV with simple apical bulb, subapical organite, microsensillum, about 12 curved sensory chaetae which are only slightly thicker than other antennal chaetae: 3 dorso-external s (s 7, s 8 and s 9) and 9 dorso-internal s resulting of plurichaetoses of the dorso-internal side of antennae; ventrally with 5 thicker chaetae (Figs 6, 8 & 23). Ant III organ with two long (outer) guard sensilla, two short (inner) sensilla and a ventral microsensillum (Fig. 7). Antennal eversible sac absent between Ant III and IV. Ant II with 12 – 13 chaetae. Ant I with 7 chaetae, p chaeta absent (Fig. 6). Head. Tubercles and spines absent. Eyes 8 + 8; eye patch with three chaetae, oc 2 longer than oc 1 and oc 3 (Fig. 5). PAO equal or slightly shorter than nearest eye in diameter, composed of 4 lobes, without accessory tubercle (Fig. 5). Labral chaetal formula 4 / 5, 5, 4, labral margin without papillae (Fig. 4). Ventral cephalic chaetotaxy (after Fjell- berg 1999) with 6 chaetae px, 4 bm, 5 bl, and 3 plb (Fig. 3). Labial palp with 5 papillae (A – E), with 1,4,0,3,6 guard chaetae, respectively, lateral process absent (Fig. 18). Maxilla with 6 lamellae, lamella 1 with 2 rows of filaments, lamella 1 and 2 longer than maxillary teeth, lamella 6 larger than lamellae 3 and 5 (Fig. 10). Maxillary outer lobe with 2 sublobal hairs (Fig. 9). Dorsal cephalic chaetotaxy typical of the genus, with 2 + 2 v-chaetae (Fig. 2). Thorax. Dorsal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 2. Th I with 3 + 3 chaetae in p row, usually p 5 longer than p 1 and p 4. Th II with 3 rows of chaetae, 6 + 6 in a row, as a 1 – 6; 6 + 6 chaetae in m row, as m 1 – 5, m 7 as s, m 6 absent; 6 + 6 chaetae in p row, as p 1 – 6, p 4 as s. Th III with 3 rows of chaetae, 6 + 6 chaetae in a row; 4 + 4 chaetae in m row, m 2 - 3 and m 6 absent; 6 + 6 chaetae in p row. Microsensillum on Th II present. Subcoxae I, II, III with 1,3,3 chaetae respectively. No chaetae on thoracic sterna II – III. Legs with unguis well developed, with one inner tooth at 2 / 3 distance of its inner edge from base. Empodial appendage lance-shaped, with small basal lamella and apical filament reaching 1 / 2 distance of inner edge of unguis (Fig. 12). Tibiotarsi I, II, III with 19,19,18 chaetae, respectively, of which 1,1,1 tenent hair (A 1 chaeta) distinctly knobbed (Figs 11 – 12). Hind leg with 3 chaetae on subcoxa, 7 chaetae on coxa, 6 chaetae on trochanter, 11 chaetae on femur, 18 chaetae on tibiotarsus including tenent hair (Fig. 11). Abdomen. Dorsal chaetotaxy as in Fig. 2. Abd I-III with three rows of chaetae, 5 + 5 chaetae in a row, as a 1 – 2, a 3 and a 5 - 6; 2 + 2 chaetae in m row, as m 3 and m 4; 6 + 6 chaetae in p row, as p 1 – 6, p 5 as s; Abd IV with 5 + 5 chaetae in a row, as a 1 – 4 and a 6; 5 + 5 chaetae in m row, as m 1, m 3 and m 5 - 7; 7 + 7 chaetae in p row, as p 1 – 7, p 5 as s; Abd V with three rows of chaetae, 5 + 5 chaetae in a row, as a 1 – 5; m 1 present; 4 + 4 chaetae in p row, as p 1 – 3 and p 5, p 3 as s. Abd VI with three rows of chaetae, 2 + 2 chaetae in a row, 2 + 2 chaetae in m row and 2 + 2 + 1 chaetae in p row (unpaired p 0 and p 1 – 2). Ventral tube with 4 + 4 chaetae (Fig. 13). Retinaculum with 4 + 4 teeth, no chaetae on corpus (Fig. 14). Furca as in Figs 15 and 16. Manubrium usually with 9 posterior chaetae on each side. Dens posteriorly with coarse granules and 7 chaetae, ratio of length of subbasal longer chaeta to basal chaeta as 2.1 – 2.4: 1. Mucro with apex straight, outer lamella long, broad and slightly curved, without inner lamella (Fig. 16). Length ratio of dens to mucro = 2.0 – 2.1: 1. Two short, straight anal spines on Abd VI, slightly bigger than their basal papillae (Fig. 21). Male and female genital plates respectively with 32 – 34 chaetae and about 20 chaetae (Figs 19 & 20).

Fig. 1 – 23, Tab. 1

Discussion. The following features: Ant IV with weakly differentiated sensilla, chaetae m 6 on Th II – III absent, body and posterior side of dens with coarse granulation, retinaculum with 4 + 4 teeth, ventral tube with 4 + 4 chaetae, empodial appendage lance-shaped and tibiotarsi with one tenent hair place the new species in the manubrialis group (see Babenko et al. 1994, Thibaud et al. 2004). From among members of this group Hypogastrura vernalis (Carl, 1901), H. unguiculata (Mitra, 1966), H. druki Babenko, 1994 (in: Babenko et al. 1994), H. turkmenica Babenko, 1994 (in: Babenko et al. 1994) and H. christianseni Yosii, 1960 seems to be most similar to H. satkosiaensis sp. nov. by m 1 chaeta present on Abd V and 4 + 4 teeth on retinaculum, but they differ in the dorsal chaetotaxy (m 2 chaeta on Th II absent in H. unguiculata and H. christianseni vs m 2 present in the other species; only 1 + 1 m chaetae on Abd V in the new species and H. christianseni vs 2 + 2 or 3 + 3 m chaetae in the other species), greater number of sensilla on Ant IV (12 in the new species vs 5 - 8 in the other species) and mucro shape. The main diagnostic features of the new species which identifies it from related members of the H. manubrialis group and other Indian species in this group, are summarized in Table 1.

Etymology. The new species is named after the type locality of Satkosia Wildlife Sanctuary, Odisha, India.

Type material. Holotype: male on slide, INDIA, Odisha, Satkosia Wild Life Sanctuary, Chamundia range, district Nayagarh, Altitude 265 ft, Latitude 20 ° 30 ’ 081 ” North and 84 ° 50 ’ 394 ” East, date 18. xi. 2016, coll. G. P. Mandal (Registration No. 2214 / H 14) deposited in the National Zoological Collection, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata. Paratypes: 5 specimens (2 males & 3 females) on slide (dissected), same data as Holotype (Registration No. 2499 / H 14 to 2503 / H 14) and 90 specimens in ethyl alcohol, same data as Holotype (Registration No. 2504 / H 14) deposited in the National Zoological Collection, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata.