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Materias Investigacion::Ciencias de la vida::Zoología, Materias Investigacion::Ciencias de la vida::Taxonomía y sistemática, Orchesellides, Disjunct distribution, Western Palaearctic region, Iberian Peninsula, Spain

Abstract

A new species of Orchesellides is described from material collected in the Valsa n forest (Segovia, Spain), and conserved in the collection of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN), CSIC, Madrid. The genus was known only from the eastern Palaearctic, Oriental, and Indo-Pacific (Hawaii) regions. This is the first reference for the genus from the western Palaearctic region, creating an interesting disjunct distribution. The value of the morphological characteristics for the identification of the species is discussed.