Description of a new species of Neocypholaelaps (Acari: Ameroseiidae) from Brazil, with a key to the world species
Author
De, Gilberto J.
Author
Narita, João P. Z.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2554
37
44
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.196878
3e06c485-6710-4b7e-b919-b8d6fb2f2343
1175-5326
196878
Neocypholaelaps
Vitzthum
Cypholaelaps
Berlese, 1918
: 117
.
Neocypholaelaps
Vitzthum, 1942
: 763
. replacement name for
Cypholaelaps
(preoccupied)
Neocypholaelaps
.—
Evans, 1963a
: 210
.
Asperolaelaps
Womersley, 1956
: 534
(synonymy according to
Domrow, 1979
).
Type
species:
Laelaps ampullula
Berlese, 1910
.
The following characterisation of the genus is mostly based on
Evans (1963a)
, with slight modifications to accommodate more recently described species. Cheliceral digits edentate or with a single subapical tooth; fixed digit with a transparent lobed structure, probably representing a modified
pilus dentilis
; epistome with anterior margin serrated; corniculus undivided, convergent, surrounded by a hyaline membrane. Dorsal shield weakly ornamented, with 28, 30 or, most commonly, 29 pairs of setae, of which
j1
is generally stout and always barbed. Sternal shield with two pairs of setae;
st3
usually inserted on platelets and
st4
inserted on unsclerotised cuticle; opistogastric setae always on unsclerotised cuticle. Peritreme usually extending at least up to level of coxa I (between setae
j1
and
j2
). All legs with pulvillus and a pair of well developed claws; leg chaetotaxy (femur, genu, tibia and tarsi, respectively): leg I: 12, 12, 12, -; leg II: 10, 11, 10, 18; leg III: 6, 9, 8, 18; leg IV: 6, 9, 9, 18.