taxonID	type	description	language	source
03BD3A473D3AE02BD378FF4D4987F8EF.taxon	description	* (?) Hematelura convivens Escherich, 1906 – PA (TE – non-identified termites) (Escherich, 1906). Species described from a single female holotype which is almost certainly lost; incomplete description lacking details puts the validity of this species in question. Trichatelura borgmeieri Silvestri, 1933 – GO (MY – army ants: Eciton crassicorne, E. diana, E. dulcis, E. minense, E. praedator and E. sclechtendali, Dorylinae) (Wygodzinsky, 1943 b). Trichatelura manni (Caudell, 1925) – GO (MY – army ants: Eciton crassicorne and E. praedator, Dorylinae) (Wygodzinsky, 1943 b). Note 1: The validity of Nicoletia neotropicalis Silvestri, 1901 – MT (ED) (Silvestri, 1901 b, c; Escherich, 1905) warrants investigation; the con-specificity of samples from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay recorded under this name needs to be revised (they hardly pertain to Nicoletia, and they may not even belong to Nicoletiinae). Note 2: Nicoletia armata Silvestri, 1901 (ED), probably a Cubacubaninae in need of revision, was reported by Escherich (1905) to occur in Brazil: “ … Silvestri fand sie in Brazilien, Uruguay und Paraguay … ”. In fact, this enigmatic species was registered by Silvestri (1901 b, c) from Argentina, Paraguay (Paraná) and Uruguay, but never from Brazil. Note 3. We never studied this species but Espinasa (pers. comm.) believes that its description is incorrect and that it will be no more than Coletinia brasiliensis; so, the correct nomenclature of these species remains debatable, as it is the real occurrence of the Cubacubaninae in Brazil.	en	Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F., Fox, G. P., Solis, Daniel R., Bueno, Odair C. (2009): New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (34): 467-475, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.60692/bntpf-rbw35
03BD3A473D39E02DD149FCE24B28FD10.taxon	description	Description: Female: Nicoletiidae Subnicoletiinae of small body size (<4 mm), ateluriform (short and stout), lacking pigment and without scales; most of the setae are thin and very short (only a few acute or apically slightly bifurcated macrochaetae exist on the head and tergites). Head exposed, setose. Nota, abdominal tergites and sternites, with setae arranged in several irregular rows. Incisive and molar areas of mandibles well developed. Galea and lacinia equally developed; galea with 1 apical conule only, the prostheca not clearly longer than the apical tooth of lacinia. Maxillary and labial palps typical. Praetarsus simple and complete. All abdominal segments exposed. Stylets on abdominal segments VI-IX (4 pairs), vesicular structures reduced to pseudovesicles VII. Subgenital plate widely elliptical, the ovipositor spindle-shaped, with thin setae only and clearly longer than level of stylets IX. Cerci and paracercum short, lacking spines. Male sex unknown. Type-species: Allotrichotriura saevissima sp. nov. Etymology: From the Greek, Allos: other, and from Trichotriura Silvestri, 1918, a West African genus probably quite close to the new endemic Brazilian genus. Discussion: The new genus fits within Subnicoletiinae (sensu Mendes, 1994), probably a polyphyletic group as judiciously suggested by Smith (1998), known from the Neotropical, Afrotropical, Oriental and Australian Regions. It includes 11 genera, namely Hematelura Escherich, 1906, Hemitrinemura Mendes, 1994, Metrinura Mendes, 1994, Subnicoletia Silvestri, 1908, Subtrinemura Smith, 1998, Trichatelura Silvestri, 1932, Trichotriura Silvestri, 1918, Trichotriurella Mendes, 2002, Trichotriuroides Mendes et al., 1994, Trinemura Silvestri, 1908 and Trinemurodes Silvestri, 1916.	en	Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F., Fox, G. P., Solis, Daniel R., Bueno, Odair C. (2009): New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (34): 467-475, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.60692/bntpf-rbw35
03BD3A473D39E02DD149FCE24B28FD10.taxon	description	Furthermore, Trichatelura, ecitophilous and Neotropical, with 2 known species from Brazil, has a single row of strong setae along the posterior border of the urotergites, thin and cylindrical labial palp apical article, very different subgenital plate, and a much shorter ovipositor. In the new genus all tergal and sternal setae are similarly developed, thin, short and arranged in several irregular rows, being slightly more dense and more developed on posterolateral areas only, with just a single macrochaeta postero-laterally. Trichotriura, termitophilous from Nigeria, with even smaller specimens, shows, like the preceding genus, different dorsal setation, urotergites provided with just one posterior row of well-developed setae; furthermore, the distal article of labial palp is also almost sub-cylindrical. Trichotriuroides, monotypical and endemic to the Equatorial Guinean island of Bioko (formerly Macias Nguema, before that Fernando Poo) seems more similar to Allotrichotriura though the comparison remains difficult as the type-series of the new genus includes exclusively females while Trichotriuroides remains known from a single male. Main differences seem to concern the almost completely concealed abdominal tergite I due to the proportional development of the thorax (free in the new genus), the cylindrical labial palp distal article (oval in Allotrichotriura), the distinct empodium, the density of setae along the body (mainly nota) and the lack of thoracic macrochaetae. Trichotriurella, from the former Zaire and also monotypical, with mature specimens also smaller than those of the new genus is similarly known from females only; among other dissimilarities, there is different cephalic setation, very distinct mandibles and maxillae, longer antennae and only one pair of abdominal stylets.	en	Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F., Fox, G. P., Solis, Daniel R., Bueno, Odair C. (2009): New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (34): 467-475, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.60692/bntpf-rbw35
03BD3A473D3CE02DD0E7FD024DBFFB30.taxon	description	(Figs. 1 - 20) Type material: Holotype female, BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro: Pedro do Rio, 22 ° 20 ’ 32.64 ” S, 43 ° 7 ’ 58.96 ” W, 730 m of altitude, 08 / 05 / 2006, within a fire ant (Solenopsis saevissima) nest, coll. E. G. P. Fox, (CEIS / UNESP). Paratypes: Same data as holotype, 1 female (MZUSP) 1 female (CZ- 5276). Description: Female: Body length: 3 - 3.2 mm; thorax length: 1.4 mm; thorax width: 1.4 mm; maximum measured length of antennae: 1.3 mm; cerci length: 0.9 mm; terminal filament short, always damaged. Hypodermal pigment absent; setae and macrochaetae hyaline. Head (Fig. 1) wider than long, the cephalic capsule with numerous thin short setae and with a few frontal acute macrochaetae. Antennae short, without peculiar features. Incisive and molar areas of mandible well developed (Fig. 2). Maxillae without remarkable features, the prostheca slightly longer than the apical tooth of lacinia, as long as the galea, which has only one reduced apical conule (Fig. 3). Maxillary palp delicate the distal article cylindrical and longer than the previous one, and with several apical sensilla (Figs. 4, 5). Labium as usual, the labial palp (Fig. 6) medium-size, its distal article ovoid, ca. 1.2 times longer than wide and with six typical apical papillae. Nota short and wide, with numerous irregular rows of minute thin setae, their posterior border almost straight (pronotum) to slightly concave (metanotum); only one very short, apically bifid macrochaeta, stronger though not longer than the usual setae, occurs on the anterior-lateral angle of pronotum (Fig. 7). Legs typical, tibias (Figs. 8, 9) ca 3 times longer than wide, the empodium simple and complete (Fig. 10). Urotergites I-VIII like the nota, with several thin short setae, more numerous on the infralateral area; one only stout macrochaeta present (Fig. 11), its robustness increasing from the anterior to the posterior segments; infralateral areas of urotergite IX poorly extended, as in Fig. 12. Urotergite X sub-trapezoidal (Fig. 13), much shorter than wide at base, its posterior notch obtuse, not especially depressed; 1 + 1 infralateral plus 1 + 1 shorter lateral macrochaetae on the posterior border and a few thin discal setae. Urosternite I almost glabrous with a few submedian setae, II with 1 + 1 lateral plus 1 median well delimited groups of setae (Fig. 14); abdominal sternites III-VII with abundant thin small setae, uniformly distributed, like the dorsal plates (Fig. 15). Four pairs of abdominal stylets, on segments VI-IX (Fig. 16); only pseudovesicles VII are present. Posterior border of urosternite VII clearly concave the subgenital plate wide and short, parabolic to almost triangular (Fig. 17). Coxites VIII and IX typical (Fig. 18); ovipositor spindle-shaped, clearly exceeding the apex of stylet IX; gonapophyses VIII and IX as in Figs. 19, 20 with ca 6 divisions. Terminal filaments short, without special features. Male unknown. Etymology: The new species is named after to its known ant host species in Brazil, Solenopsis saevissima.	en	Mendes 1 Eduardo, Luis F., Fox, G. P., Solis, Daniel R., Bueno, Odair C. (2009): New Nicoletiidae (Zygentoma: Insecta) from Brazil living in fire-ant (Hymenoptera: Insecta) nests. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 49 (34): 467-475, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492009003400001, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.60692/bntpf-rbw35
