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Redescription of the Antarctic springtail Desoria klovstadi using morphological and molecular evidence

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Isotoma klovstadi Carpenter, 1902 was one of the first Collembola described from the Antarctic continent. It was first collected in November 1899 during the British Antarctic Expedition on the north coast of Victoria Land in the Ross Sea region. It is now known to occur in an extensive area of northern Victoria Land, including the offshore Possession, Coulman, and Foyn Islands. More recently, I. klovstadi was moved to the genus Gnathisotoma Cassagnau, 1957 and has been included in this genus in an unpublished checklist (online) of all described Collembola. Here, we redescribe the species and use morphological and molecular (COI and 18S genes) evidence to investigate its affinities within the Isotominae. We show that it does not belong to Gnathisotoma, or Isotoma s. str. (the viridis group) as currently conceived, but is likely to be part of the species complex of Isotoma s. lat. We discuss reasons for placing it in the genus Desoria Nicolet, 1841. Our results reinforce the already high level of endemicity in the Antarctic fauna and emphasise the value of both morphological and molecular studies in examining relict Gondwanan taxa and their evolutionary relationships with those of other Southern Hemisphere continents.

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Abbreviations

Ant.:

Antenna or antennal

Abd.:

abdomen

PAO:

postantennal organ

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Acknowledgements

We thank Ken Christiansen, Frans Janssens, and Francesco Frati for discussions that initiated this work, and to three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the manuscript. We are also indebted to Rod Seppelt, Allan Green, Catherine Beard, and Brent Sinclair for recent collections from Cape Hallett (1999–2004). Arctic collections were supported by an NSERC (Canada) operating grant to P.D.N. Hebert. We are also extremely grateful for logistic and/or financial support from David Penny, Bryan Gould, (University of Waikato Vice-Chancellor’s fund), Antarctica New Zealand, and Australian Antarctic Division (ASAC grants 2355, 2397).

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  1. Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution, Massey University, Private Bag 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Mark I. Stevens

  2. Department of Genetics, La Trobe University, 3086, Bundoora, VIC, Australia

    Mark I. Stevens & Paul Sunnucks

  3. Zoological Museum, Lund University, 223 62, Lund, Sweden

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  4. Department of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, 0200, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Penelope Greenslade

  5. Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology Research, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand

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Stevens, M.I., Fjellberg, A., Greenslade, P. et al. Redescription of the Antarctic springtail Desoria klovstadi using morphological and molecular evidence. Polar Biol 29, 820–830 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-006-0120-y

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