Four new species of the family Diptilomiopidae (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from China
Author
Wang, Guo-Quan
Author
Wei, Sui-Gai
Author
Yang, Ding
text
Zootaxa
2010
2442
39
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.195002
7f8f6853-55b7-451d-9470-faae3f02bdbb
1175-5326
195002
Vimola
Boczek, 1992
(in
Boczek & Chandrapatya, 1992
)
Diagnosis.
Body fusiform, gnathosoma large, prodorsal shield with frontal lobe absent, scapular tubercles ahead of rear shield margin, scapular setae absent. Both legs femoral, legs ІІ genual and tibial setae absent; tarsal empodium divided. First coxal tubercles and setae absent, 2nd and 3rd coxal tubercles and setae present. Lateral setae
c2
absent, opisthosoma with dorsal median ridge and usual ventral setae.
Notes
. The genus has 10 species; 5 species occur in Southeast Asia, 3 species, including the new species
V. emarginata
sp. nov.
reported herein, are from Oriental
China
and 2 species from the Nearctic realm. The two known species from
China
,
V. guangxiensis
(
Kuang & Huang, 1991
)
and
V. sargentodoxae
(
Wei & Kuang, 1996
)
, were previously placed in the genus
Rhynacus
Keifer, 1951
, but re-assigned to
Vimola
by
Hong and Zhang (1997)
and Wei
et al.
(2009b) respectively.