Estudio faunístico del macizo de Quinto Real IV. Género Hypogastrura (Collembola, Hypogastruridae)

En este trabajo se estudian las especies del género Hypogastrura Bourlet 1839, de Quinto Real. De un total de 20.462 ejemplares de colémbolos recolectados durante los años 1976-1977, 1.107 pertenecen al género Hypogastrura lo que supone un 5,41 % del total. De ellos 244 a la especie Hypogastrura socialis del subgénero Hypogastrura y 863 al subgénero Ceratophysella Börner 1932. De estos últimos pertene cen a la H. armata 272 ej. , a H. acuminata 176 ej . , H. acuminata f. hipergranulata n. forma 14 ej., H. tergilobata 7 ej., H. tuberculata 285 ej. y a H. denticulata 109 ej. Se describen las especies, su ecología y los estadios larvarios

On living beings: biological and philosophical aspects.

This is an interdisciplinary work (biology-philosophy) product of reflection on the challenges today presented by a biological vision of the world regarding questions, concepts and notions of cosmology (Philosophy of Nature). Based on and in dialogue with the current state of biological research, this work deals with certain cosmological problems such as that between the living and the inert, the traditional division between the soul or the vital vegetative principle, sensitive or intellective; the problem of individuation and the concept of species, among others; the solution found within classical philosophy in this paper takes into account the latest discoveries findings of modern biology.post-print165 K

Wankeliella medialis, nueva especie para la Fauna Ibérica

Se describe una nueva especie de Wankeliella, W. medialis sp. n. procedente de Navarra, España. Se diferencia de otras especies del género por la presencia simultánea de p0, m4 y m5 en el terguito abdominal IV

The Origin of Man in the Light of Three Fields of Knowledge: Science, Philosophy and Theology.

The reception and development of Darwin’s ideas have displaced mankind from the central place in the Cosmos, becoming no more than another evolved animal. This work offers a criticalscientific critique of the dominant ideas in the field of scientific research and debate into the origins of Man. By means of an interdisciplinary analysis (science, philosophy, and theology) of the scientifically proven facts, it is concluded that specimens classified in the genus Homo constitute a single species whose morphological evolution (hominization) is posterior to its humanization.post-print391 K

Colémbolos de Navarra (Norte de la Península Ibérica). I. Orden Poduromorpha (Collembola)

Se recogen un total de 123 especies y subespecies de Colémbolos poduromorfos de Navarra. Ocho de ellas se citan por primera vez para la Península Ibérica: Hypogastrura (Hypogastrura) sahlbergi (REUTER, 1895), Schaefferia ariegica (CASSAGNAU, 1959), Acherongia mínima MASSOUD y THIBAUD, 1985, Friesea albida atypica CASSAGNAU, 1958, Odontellina nivalis (CASSAGNAU, 1959), Neonaphorura cf. novemspina GISIN, 1963, Onychiurus justi DENIS, 1938 sensu GISIN, 1952, Wankeliella mediochaeta RUSEK, 1975, y seis son nuevas para la ciencia: Friesea villanuevai n.sp., Friesea villanuevai populi n.ssp., Pseudachorutes plurichaetosus n.sp., Stachorutes valdealbarensis n.sp., Superodontella conglobata n.sp. y Mesaphorura longispina n.sp. Se incluyen claves para la determinación de las especies

A new species of Entomobrya from Iraq (Collembola, Entomobryidae)

The systematic study of Entomobrya specimens from different museums in the Palaearctic region and material obtained from other collections allowed some new species of the genus to be revealed. Entomobrya iraqensis n. sp. is described from Mosul, Iraq. For the identification and description of the species, the set of characters proposed by Jordana and Baquero (2005) was used

A proposal of characters for taxonomic identification of Entomobrya species (Collembola, Entomobryomorpha), with description of a new species

The species of the genus Entomobrya have bean traditionally identified using colouration. Only some authors have considered a small number of morphological characters, in badly mounted or old specimens, as well as chaetotaxical characters (but not used for species identification). The study of a large series of slides from extensive collections of Entomobrya species with observation of the complete chaetotaxy has demonstrated that specimens with the same colour pattern can have a very different chaetotaxy, which is related with the geographical origin. On the other hand, specimens with similar chaetotaxy but from distant geographical areas maintain the same colour pattern. The present paper proposes a set of both morphological and chaetotaxical characters as a useful tool for the species identification in the genus Entomobrya in connection with the observation of colour pattern. For the selection of this set of characters more than 500 slides from the top-ranking European museums have been studied. Two species of the genus with similar colour pattern but with a different chaetotaxy are used as models for the methodology: E. nivalis (Linnaeus, 1758) and a new species from León (Spain)."By kind permission of Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz; copyright by Senckenberg Görlitz. See also: www.soil-organisms.org

A new species of Entomobrya (Collembola, Entomobryidae) from La Caldera de Taburiente National Park (La Palma Island, Canary Islands) and its associated collembolan fauna

Entomobrya palmensis n. sp. is described from the Canary Islands (Macaronesian Region). The new species shares the colour pattern with E. multifasciata (Tullberg, 1871), but clearly differs in chaetotaxy. A list of species and locations of the collembolan fauna of the area is given