Hanseniella sp. 5 Material studied. • 1 female, Colombia: Santander, Girón, Vereda Chocoita, manual collection in pineapple farming, 850 m a. s. l., 6.9867, -73.1628, 15 - IX- 2020. J. Montes-Rodríguez, GICho 01-1 (field code). Distribution. This species has only been collected in the Chocoita district of the municipality of Girón in the department of Santander in Colombia. Remarks. This is the first species of the genus Hanseniella reported in Neotropics with the posterior margin of the last tergite with a median projection or expansion between the cerci (Fig. 20 C). This morphological characteristic is also present in H. brachycerca, described in New Zealand by Adam and Burtel (1956). The taxonomic key proposed by Scheller and Adis (2002) for identifying Neotropical genera uses this characteristic to differentiate between the genera Hanseniella and Scopoliella, assuming that all Hanseniella species in the Neotropics had a straight or almost straight posterior margin on the last tergite. With the presence of Hanseniella sp. 5, this key was adjusted by incorporating other characteristics of Scopoliella (See below).

Published as part of Montes-Rodríguez, José Mauricio, Holguin, Claudia M., Parra-Gómez, Antonio & Marchant, Sergio, 2026, Morphological and molecular identification of symphylans (Myriapoda, Symphyla) from Colombian pineapple crops, with descriptions of two new species, pp. 281-324 in ZooKeys 1268 on pages 281-324, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1268.159237