Complementary description of three species of Steneotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from rice agroecosystems of Eastern India with notes on their taxonomic status, spatial distribution, intraspecific variation and species composition Author Ganguly, Moumi 0000-0003-4101-3134 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, West Bengal, India. moumi 1696 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4101 - 3134 moumi1696@gmail.com Author Mondal, Priyankar 0000-0002-0142-5815 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, West Bengal, India. priyankar. ento @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0142 - 5815 priyankar.ento@gmail.com Author Karmakar, Krishna 0000-0002-5582-3560 Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, West Bengal, India. kkbckv 64 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5582 - 3560 kkbckv64@gmail.com text Zootaxa 2022 2022-05-20 5138 5 501 532 journal article 55451 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.5.1 d6c358bf-ea4b-4a15-9317-d14388fb7364 1175-5326 6571817 3A4C7DE4-CC6E-4EC2-B8C4-B65B789F7BE1 Steneotarsonemus ( Linzhangia ) subfurcatus Lin and Zhang, 1990 comb. nov. Diagnosis: Adult female: Dorsal shields ornamented with faint punctations; seta v1 positioned anteriad stigmata; atrium globular; bothridial seta absent; all dorsal setae smooth except v2 which is coarse; seta sc2 conspicuously thicker than other dorsal setae; distance between bases of sc2 nearly equal to its length; seta 3b one-fourth length of 3a ; sejugal apodeme reduced to small lateral remnants; prosternal apodeme posteriorly bifurcated and diffusely joins apodemes 2; poststernal apodeme broken and with distinct cleft medially; seta l' of femur I peg like and barbed; seta v'Ti sparsely barbed, about one-fourth length of seta tc'' . Adult male : sc1 almost as long as setae sc2 ; distance between bases of sc2 nearly equal to its length; seta c2 not reaching base of c1 ; setae c1 not reaching bases of d ; prosternal apodeme conspicuous only up to slightly above the proximal end of apodemes 2; poststernal apodeme weakly connected with apodemes 3 and 4; seta 3a thrice the length of 3b ; seta l' and l'' of femur I and l'' of genu I apically blunt and sparsely barbed; seta v' of tibia II barbed; femorogenu IV without flange; seta v'F bifurcated and dentate along the inner groove.