New and little known species of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Cameroon
Author
Niedbała, Wojciech
Author
Starý, Josef
text
Zootaxa
2014
3889
1
31
57
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3889.1.2
51278449-1ee6-4634-909b-147906871864
1175-5326
228762
087B237C-E45C-4FDC-BC1A-649FB5B6A87E
Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) gibbus
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 12A–J
)
Measurements of
holotype
. Prodorsum: length 328, width 222, height 151; prodorsal setae: sensillus 126, interlamellar (
in
) 15, lamellar (
le
) 20, rostral (
ro
) 63, exobothridial (
ex
) 13; notogaster: length 646, width 374, height 384; notogastral setae:
c
1 53,
h
1 43,
ps
1 51; genitoaggenital plate 147×137; anoadanal plate 152×76.
Description.
Colour light brown. Surface of body covered with feeble concavities and also by cerotegument.
Prodorsum
with strong median carina. Lateral carinae and posterior furrows absent. Sigillar fields distinct, median widened towards rostral setae. Sensilli long, narrow, filiform, ciliated in distal half. Interlamellar and lamellar setae short, spiniform, rigid. Rostral setae considerably thicker, longer, rough, considerably distanced, directed inwards. Exobothridial setae minute.
Notogaster
with strong median, anterior hood and other positioned laterally, one pair posterior smaller tubercules with setae
ps
2 and
ps
3 and the smallest with setae
e
2 and
h
2. Notogastral setae short (
c
1/
c
1-
d
1=0.27), filiform, flexible. Setae
c
1—3 situated near anterior notogastral margin. Vestigial setae
f
1 slightly posterior of setae
h
1. Two pairs of lyrifissures
ia
and
im
present.
FIGURE 12A–J.
Atropacarus (Hoplophorella) gibbus
sp. nov.
(holotype). A, prodorsum, dorsal view; B, prodorsum, lateral view; C, prodorsum, dorsal view; D, opisthosoma, lateral view; E, opisthosoma, dorsal view; F, mentum of subcapitulum; G, right genitoaggenital plate; H, paraxial part of right genitoaggenital plate; I, right anoadanal plate; J, trochanter and femur of leg I.
Ventral region.
Setae
h
of mentum shorter than distance between their insertion points. Genitoaggenital plates with formula of genital setae: 6: 3. Anoadanal plates with adanal setae
ad
2 dagger-like, the same length as filiform adanal setae
ad
3, setae
ad
1, and anal setae minute.
FIGURE 13A–F.
Acrotritia ardua
(
C. L. Koch, 1841
)
, A, prodorsum, lateral view; B, sensillus; C, tarsus I; D, tarsus II; E, tarsus III; F, tarsus IV;
G–J.
Arphthicarus sculptilis
(
Niedbała, 1988
)
, G, prodorsum, dorsal view; H, prodorsum, lateral view; I, setae
c
1; J, right anoadanal plate.
Legs
. Chaetome of legs complete
type
. Setae
d
of femora I slightly remote from distal end of article. Distance between setae v' and
v"
greater than length of setae
v"
.
Material examined.
Holotype
is deposited at
DATE
from the locus typicus: South–West Province, Korup National Park,
12–16. V. 2006
, Rengo Camp, about
8 km
NW of Mundemba, latitude
05°02'11.64" N
, longitude
08°49'45.96" E
, altitude
300 m
, litter and soil sifting sample, leg V. Grebennikov.
Etymology.
The specific name
gibbus
is Latin for “a hump” and alludes for humped body of species.
Comparison
. The new species is easily distinguishable from congeners by the arrangement of notogastral hood and tubercules, long, distanced, directed inwards rostral setae and shape and arrangement of setae of anoadanal plates.