New species of Atropacarus (Hoplophorella), (Acari, Oribatida, Phthiracaridae) from the Afrotropical Region Author Niedbała, Wojciech Author Starý, Josef text Zootaxa 2014 3774 1 journal volume 46301 10.11646/zootaxa.3774.1.5 8352c064-d889-4a0f-88cd-8a3cd8751fe1 1175-5326 226578 DD27BDBB-5B7C-486C-A0DD-DC4167A7A9AF Atropacarus ( Hoplophorella ) curtisetosus sp. nov. ( Figs. 1A–D ) Measurements of holotype . Prodorsum: length 167, width 121, height 51; sensillum 81, setae: in 18, le 10, ro 20; notogaster: length 296, width 195, height 177; setae: c 1 28, c 1/ c 1- d 1=0.4, h 1 28; p 1 20; genitoaggenital plate 83 x53 ; anoadanal plate 106 x78 . Description. Small species. Colour brown. Surface of body with cerotegument and covered with concavities. Prodorsum ( Fig. 1A ) without lateral carinae. Posterior furrows present. Sigillar fields indistinct because cerotegument. Sensilli long, rod-like without head covered with cilia in distal half. Setae short, rod-like, stout, obtuse, and rough. Exobothridial setae vestigial. Notogaster ( Fig. 1B ) with setae short ( c 1<1/2 c 1- d 1), rigid, stout, obtuse, and rough, setae c 1 and c 3 remote from anterior margin, setae c 3 more so than c 1, setae c 2 considerably further. Only lyrifissures ip visible. Ventral region ( Fig. 1C ). Genitoaggenital plates with nine pairs of setae with formula: 4+1: 4. Anoadanal plates with rough setae, setae ad 2 thickest and longest. Legs ( Fig. 1D ) Formulae of setae and solenidia of “incomplete type ”. Setae d on femora I slightly remote from distal end of article, setae v’ absent. Material examined. Holotype is deposited at DATE . Locus typicus: TAN-002, Tanzania , east slope of Southern Uluguru Mts., 18. XI. 2010, 07 °07'20" S, 37°38'37"E , altitude 2058m , mid-altitude afromountaine deciduous forest, litter sifting sample of leaf litter, leg. V. Grebennikov. Etymology . The name curtus is Latin for “short” and alludes to the short prodorsal and notogastral setae. Comparison. The new species is slightly similar to pantropical species A .( H .) stilifer ( Hammer, 1961 ) but is distinguishable by the shape of its sensilli without a head, its shorter notogastral setae, the location of ad 2 setae laterally to an 1 setae (versus near of setae an 2) and the absence of setae v” on femora I ( Hammer 1961 , Niedbała 2001 ).