New littoral mite species (Acari, Oribatida, Fortuyniidae) from the Galápagos archipelago, with ecological and zoogeographical considerations
Author
Pfingstl, Tobias
Author
Schatz, Heinrich
text
Zootaxa
2017
4244
1
39
64
journal article
36255
10.11646/zootaxa.4244.1.2
e97a758f-a7e7-4d1e-92a7-5e5c6809d446
1175-5326
400419
43D2EF53-0A38-437A-A704-3808DDC35B62
Litoribates
gen. nov.
Diagnosis
. Medium sized (307–342 µm body length) brown sclerotized intertidal mites. Lamellar ridges present, slender and located close to lateral face of prodorsum. Sensillus slightly fusiform, pectinate. Bothridium incorporated, not projecting. Notogaster circular with 14 pairs of setae. Epimeral setation 3-1-2-2. Four pairs of genital setae. Anal plates clearly triangular. Trochanter III and IV with obvious dorsal spur. Femoral carinae on legs I and II absent. All genua with bulgy ventral transversal ridge. Juveniles with slightly foveate centrodorsal plate.
Type species:
Litoribates caelestis
sp. nov.