New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from banana and heliconia in Northeastern Brazil — two new genera and three new species
Author
Reis, Aleuny C.
Author
Gondim, Manoel G. C.
Author
Navia, Denise
Author
Flechtmann, Carlos H. W.
text
Zootaxa
2011
3042
15
26
journal article
46270
10.5281/zenodo.206677
4ee56fc9-c473-4cbe-989c-4c09c6b0772d
1175-5326
206677
Rhyncadicrus
n. gen.
Reis & Navia
Diptilomiopidae
:
Rhyncaphytoptinae
(
Figs. 3
&
4
)
Diagnosis.
Rhyncadicrus
n. gen.
is a
Rhyncaphytoptinae
mite with a prominent, deeply-emarginated frontal lobe; palp distal segments (palp, tibia and tarsus) distinctively elongated; palp tarsus with distal setae; prodorsal shield tubercles and scapular seta (
sc
) present, ahead of rear shield margin, tubercles with transversal bases directing
sc
backwards; coxal seta I (
1b
) absent; tibial seta I (
l'
) present; genual seta (
l"
) II and femoral seta (
bv
) I and II absent; opisthosoma with submedian ridges convergent and fading above the level of ventral seta
f
. Among the
Rhyncaphytoptinae
, it is closest to
Chakrabartiella
Amrine & Stasny 1994
;
Sakthirhynchus
Umapathy & Mohanasundaram 1999
and
Hyborhinus
Mohanasundaram 1986
, in sharing the absence of coxal seta
1b
. However, it differs from
Sakthirhynchus
in the presence of the prodorsal shield tubercles and scapular seta (sc) (absent in
Sakthirhynchus
); from
Hyborhinus
in the absence of femoral seta (
bv
) I and II (both present in
Hyborhinus
); and from
Chakrabartiella
in the absence of genual seta (
l"
) II (present in
Chakrabartiella
). The anterior frontal lobe, deeply emarginated, in the new genus is similar to that of
Acadicrus
Keifer 1965
and
Neoepitrimerus
Kuang, Li & Shen 1994
, both genera belong in the
Eriophyidae
,
Phyllocoptinae
.
Type
species.
Rhyncadicrus asperulus
n.sp.
Etymology.
The generic designation is a composition of
“Rhynca”
, from the subfamily
Rhyncaphytoptinae
to which the new genus belongs, and “
dicrus
”, from the Greek
dikros
that means forked, which refers to the deeply, emarginated frontal lobe.