Camerobia and Neophyllobius (Acari: Prostigmata: Camerobiidae) from Australia, with the descriptions of two new species
Author
Fan, Qing-Hai
Author
Walter, David E.
text
Zootaxa
2006
1309
1
23
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.173835
86f53744-ca83-4c59-b7de-b4b675da20b8
11755326
173835
Genus
Neophyllobius
Berlese
Neophyllobius
Berlese, 1886
: 19
;
McGregor, 1950
: 55
;
Summers & Schlinger, 1955
: 549
;
De Leon, 1958
: 173
;
Meyer & Ryke, 1960
: 210
;
Chaudhri
et al
., 1974
: 188
;
Zaher & Gomma, 1979
: 123
;
Bolland, 1986
: 195
;
Meyer & Ueckermann, 1989
: 53
;
Bolland, 1991
: 61
;
Fan & Zhang, 2005
: 16
and 23;
Akyol & Koç, 2006a
: 125
.
Type
species:
Neophyllobius elegans
Berlese, 1886
; by original designation.
Diagnosis (revised from
Fan & Zhang, 2005
)
Female. Stylophore with 1–2 pairs of peritremes. Counts of setae and solenidia from palptrochanter to palptarsus: 0, 2, 1, 3 + 1 claw, 2 setae + 1–2 eupathidia + 1 solenidion. Idiosoma with 14 or 15 (
pdx
present) pairs of setae. Genital valves with 1 pair of setae, anal valves with 3 pairs of pseudanal setae. Solenidion on basal halves of tarsi I and II. Tarsi I–II each with 1–2 medioventral setae in a longitudinal line and III–IV each with 1–2 medioventral setae. Counts of setae and solenidia of legs I–IV: coxae (excluding
1a
,
3a
, and
4a
) 2 + 1
elcI
, 1, 2, 2; trochanters 1, 1, 1, 1; femora 3–4, 2–4, 1–3, 1–3; genua 1 + 1, 1 + 1, 1, 1; tibiae 9 + 1, 8 + 1, 8 + 1, 7 + 1; tarsi 9–10 + 1, 9–10 + 1, 7–8 + 0–1, 7–8.
Male. Aedeagus present; tibia I with an additional terminal solenidion; tarsi I–IV each with an enlarged solenidion.
Remarks
Since the revision of the genus by
Bolland (1991)
, 25 species have been added to the genus, most of which are from the Middle East (Appendix 1). Previously only a single species was known from
Australia
. Below we review the description of this species and describe two new species.