Collembola from Two Samplings in the MSS of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park in Two Different Seasons, with Description of a New Species

Simple Summary The interest in the fauna of the colluvial mesovoid shallow substratum (MSS) led us to install a series of pitfall traps (subterranean sampling devices or SSDs) for a full year in the Sierra de Guadarrama. This paper presents the comparative results between the captures at two different periods of the year and allows the description of a new species, found only in one of those periods. It seems proven that there are species present throughout the year, but others also predominate, or are exclusive, to just one of them. This study indicates, again, that the colluvial MSS has a particular species composition for the taxon Collembola, different from the surface, a perfectly differentiated habitat. An intensive sampling in a colluvial mesovoid shallow substratum (MSS) of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, using 33 subterranean sampling devices (SSDs) is the origin of the Collembola studied in this paper. The data were obtained from the second extraction of the traps, in operation between October of 2015 and May of 2016. This paper presents the faunistic and diversity data along with the entire park (mostly at sampling points above 200 m a.s.l.) for this period, compares the data between the first extraction of the traps and the second one, and describes one species of the genus Pseudosinella that appears as new in the second campaign.

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This paper studied the Collembola species in the colluvial mesovoid shallow substratum (MSS) of Sierra de Guadarrama National Park and compared the captures at two different periods of the year. The study found that the MSS has a distinct species composition for Collembola, different from the surface habitat.