New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from cultivated plants from northeastern Brazil, including the second taxon in the Prothricinae Author Reis, Aleuny Coutinho Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE, Departamento de Agronomia, Recife, Brazil; Author Jr, Manoel Guedes Corrêa Gondim Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco - UFRPE, Departamento de Agronomia, Recife, Brazil; Author Flechtmann, Carlos Holger Wenzel CNPq-Brazil-Researcher, Universidade de São Paulo-ESALQ, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Piracicaba, Brazil; Author Navia, Denise Embrapa Recursos Genéticos e Biotecnologia, Brasília, Brazil text Journal of Natural History 2014 2014-03-05 48 19 1135 1152 journal article 21051 10.1080/00222933.2013.862574 be157984-b43b-42c4-aeb5-6c2682bab7e0 1464-5262 4006817 881522D7-5288-49B4-9C34-B3E316ABEE20 Auriculatus Reis and Navia , gen. nov. ( Figures 3 and 4 ) Figure 3. Auriculatus clitoria gen. nov., sp. nov. CGM, coxigenital region, male; D, dorsal habitus, female; em, empodium, leg I, female; LM, lateral habitus, female; L1, leg I, female; L2, leg II, female; V, ventral habitus, female. Figure 4. Auriculatus clitoria gen. nov., sp. nov. (A) Dorsal habitus, female; (B) ventral habitus, female; (C) lateral habitus, female; (D) leg I and II, female; (E) epigynum; (F) genitalia, male; (G) empodium, female. Diagnosis Auriculatus gen. nov. is an Anthocoptini with three dorsal opisthosoma ridges, middorsal and sublateral ridges begin on third annulus, middorsal ridge stronger than sublaterals; deep cleft between prodorsal shield and opisthosoma; first dorsal opisthosomal annulus formed into a broad plate bearing round lateral lobes (like shoulder blades). This new genus is near Notallus Keifer, 1975 and can be distinguished from it by the first dorsal opisthosomal annuli modified into a broad plate (in Notallus first dorsal annuli are narrow and subequal dorsoventrally, followed by tergites). Type species Auriculatus clitoria sp. nov. Etymology Auriculatus , from “ auricula ”, Latin. Feminine, meaning ear-lobe and the suffix -atus, meaning possession. It refers to the pair of lobe-like flaps on the first dorso-opisthosomal annulus. Gender: Feminine.