Post-graduate School of Entomology, Fredrick Institute of Plant Protection and Toxicology, Padappai-601 301, Tamil Nadu (India).
*Present address: Department of Zoology, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed University), Coimbatore-641 043, Tamil Nadu (India).
Lepisma devadasii, a new myrmecophilous species of Lepisma, has been described. The possession of a pair of retractile claspers as a special appendage of the second gono-coxae in the male is described for the first time in Lepismatidae and on that criterion the species is identified.
