Kaplin V.G.1, Martynov V.V.2 2024. A new species of silverfish of the genus Persiatelurina Molero et al., 2018 (Zygentoma: Nicoletiidae) from Crimea // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.33. No.3: 267–271 [in English].
1 All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Podbelskiy Roadway, 3, St Petersburg, Pushkin 196608 Russia.
2 Donetsky Botanical Garden, Ilyich Avenue, 110, Donetsk 83059 Russia.
Vladimir Kaplin ctenolepisma@mail.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3414-6759
Vladimir Martynov aphodius65@mail.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2934-9340
doi: 10.15298/rusentj.33.3.01
Abstract. A new silverfish species Persiatelurina crimeana sp.n. is described from Karadag Nature Reserve in the eastern part of the Crimean Mountains. It differs from other species of this genus: P. caucasica (Kaplin, 2016) from Abkhazia, P. daghestaniana Kaplin, 2019 from the vicinity of Derbent (Daghestan) and P. farsiana Molero et al., 2018 from Southwestern Iran by the structure of the hind margin of urotergite X, number pegs on underside of male uritergite X, number divisions of female ovipositor.
KEY WORDS: Karadag, Caucasus, Southwestern Iran, Atelurinae, morphology, taxonomy, key to species.