Tuxenidia lorenzoi (Protura: Acerentomidae), a new species from Italy and updates on the distribution of genus Tuxenidia

Tuxenidia lorenzoisp. nov. from the Eastern Italian Alps is described. The new species, like T. balcanica Nosek and Cvijović, 1969 has abdominal appendages II and III with only one seta, and it shares with T. hermonensis Szeptycki and Broza, 2004 the absence of posterior setae on urosternite VIII. Tuxenidia lorenzoisp. nov. differs from T. balcanica in the chaetotaxy of tergites I to V, VIII and XI, and of sternites II–III and VIII. In the new species, sensillum a is much shorter and b is longer than in T. balcanica. Tuxenidia lorenzoisp. nov. differs from T. hermonensis in the chaetotaxy of the metanotum, tergite I and sternite I. Some differences in the porotaxy of the mesonotum, metasternum, and sternites V–VII can also be observed. In addition, the new species has shorter sensilla a and b compared to T. hermonensis. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:87C97B5F-04F8-4019-B473-19F52BAF32EA.