New records and new species of mites from Cuba, with description of a new genus of Laelapidae (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Author
Joharchi, Omid
Author
Halliday, Bruce
Author
Tolstikov, Andrei V.
Author
Trach, Viacheslav A.
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-30
4612
3
326
350
journal article
26637
10.11646/zootaxa.4612.3.2
3835b1c0-ee9d-4a2a-bbcf-9454d050636f
1175-5326
3235112
BDCF5C67-6320-48C9-A449-C4433869E0B3
Genus
Pseudoparasitus
Oudemans
Pseudoparasitus
Oudemans, 1902: 29
.
Type
species
Laelaps meridionalis
G. & R.
Canestrini, 1882
, by original designation.
Diagnosis
.
Laelapidae
with the palp tarsal claw two-tined, or with two large tines and a small third tine; exopodal plate behind coxa IV large and triangular, not fused with peritrematal shields; genital shield large, especially broadened behind coxae IV, with 4â5 pairs of setae, two pairs of setae
Jv1âJv2
inserted on the shield in addition to setae
st5
, 1â2 pairs of setae
Zv
inserted near lateral margins of shield but never on the shield; shield without strong Î-shaped lines but always with polygonal cells; anal shield free; distinct pre-sternal plates present; idiosomal setae usually smooth; chelicera of female chelate-dentate; genu and tibia I normally with three ventral setae and nine setae on genu IV, including only one posterolateral and ventral setae.