Table 1.
List of primers used in the present study.
Table 2.
List of investigated proturans.
Fig 1.
Acerentomon christiani sp. nov.
(A) Head. (B) Rostrum. (C) Pseudoculus. (D) Maxillary palp. (E) Labial palp. (F) Maxillary gland. (G) Acrostylus. (H) Comb. (I) Foretarsus, exterior view. (J) Foretarsus, interior view. Arrows indicate pores. All figures are of holotype. Scale bars: 20 μm.
Fig 2.
Acerentomon christiani sp. nov.
(A) Pronotum and mesonotum (left side). (B) Tergite I (left side). (C) Tergite VII (right side). (D) Tergite VIII (right side). (E) Hind margin of sternite XII. (F) Prosternum. (G) Mesosternum. (H) Sternite II (right side). (I) Sternite III (right side). (J) Anterolateral structures on tergite VI. (K) Anterolateral structures on tergite VII. (L) Hind margin of laterotergite VIII. (M) Sternites VII–IX. (N) Male sguama genitalis. Arrows indicate pores (al = anterolateral, sl = sublateral, psm = posterosubmedial, psl = posterosublateral, sam = sternal anteromedial, sc = sternal central, spm = sternal posteromedial, spsm = sternal posterosubmedial, spsl = sternal posterosublateral pore). Figure N; paratype Cat. N 840+HP 136, other figures are of holotype. Scale bars: 20 μm.
Table 3.
Body chaetotaxy of Acerentomon christiani sp. nov.
Fig 3.
NJ tree based on K2P distances from 49 COI sequences and 65 28S rDNA sequences of Acerentomon spp. Bootstrap support (given below nodes) derived from 1000 replicates.