Ceratophysella taiguensis sp. nov. (Collembola, Hypogastruridae) from China, with an annotated checklist of Chinese Ceratophysella Börner, 1932

A new species of the Ceratophysella denticulata group is described from Shanxi province, China. Because of the presence of prolonged empodial appendages and reduced number of setae on dens C. taiguensis sp. nov. resembles: C. kapoviensis Babenko, 1994, C. kutyrevae Babenko, 1994, C. robustiseta Skarzynski & Smolis, 2006, C. sedecimocellata (Yosii, 1962) and C. vargovychi Skarzynski et al., 2001. A checklist of the Ceratophysella Borner, 1932 species hitherto recorded from China is also given. The present list contains 14 species, including C. anshanensis (Wu & Xie, 2007) comb. nov., C. quinidentis (Jia et al., 2005) comb. nov., C. xiaoi (Tamura, 1998) comb. nov., C. yinae (Yue & Fu, 2000) comb. nov. and C. zhangi (Zhao, 1998) comb. nov.