A new species of silverfish of the genus Persiatelurina Molero et al. (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Daghestan
V.G. Kaplin & V.G. Vasin
Abstract. A new species of silverfish, Persiatelurina daghestaniana Kaplin, sp. nov., is described from Daghestan. It differs from other species of this genus, P. caucasica (Kaplin, 2016) from Abkhazia and P. farsiana Molero et al., 2018 from Southwestern Iran, by the structure of the legs, maxillae, maxillary and labial palps, pronotum, urotergite X, urosternites II and VII, urocoxites VIII and IX, subgenital plate, and ovipositor.
Key words: silverfish, taxonomy, Caucasus, Daghestan, Zygentoma, Nicoletiidae, Persiatelurina, new species
Zoosystematica Rossica, 2019, 28(1): 88–93 ▪ Published online 30 April 2019
https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2019.28.1.88 ▪ Open full article 
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