Kaplin V.G. 2025. A new species of bristletails of the genus Charimachilis Wygodzinsky, 1939 (Microcoryphia: Machilidae) from the Southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula // Euroasian Entomological Journal. Vol.24. No.4: 209–214 [in English].
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskogo Shosse 3, Saint Petersburg, Pushkin 196608 Russia. E-mail: ctenolepisma@mail.ru ORCID: https//orcid org//0000-0002-3414-6759
doi 10.15298/euroasentj.24.04.07
ABSTRACT. Charimachilis turbanovi Kaplin, sp.n. from the vicinity of the city Sevastopol is described and illustrated. It is compared with parthenogenetic congeners from the Eastern Europe, namely: Ch. rostoviensis Kaplin, 2020, Ch. petrophilus, Kaplin, 2022 and Ch. taurica Kaplin, 2021. Ch. turbanovi Kaplin, sp.n., and differs from these species by the color of compound eyes and paired ocelli, ratios of distance between inner margins of paired ocelli to total width of compound eyes, lengths of contact line of eyes to their length, apical and preceding palpomeres of maxillary palp, length to width of apical palpomere of labial palp, number of hyaline spines on dorsal surface of the 5th palpomere of maxillary palp and the structure of the ovipositor. A key to the species of the genus Charimachilis Wygodzinsky, 1939 is also provided.
KEY WORDS: Southwestern Palaearctic, Sevastohol, Machilinae, Charimachilis, taxonomy, species identification.