Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Tanzania
Author
Niedbała, Wojciech
text
Acarologia
2017
2017-11-14
57
4
957
1072
http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20174217
journal article
10.24349/acarologia/20174217
2107-7207
5402635
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Atropacarus
(
Hoplophorella
)
curtisetosus
Niedbała et Starý, 2014
(
Fig. 65
A-D)
Diagosis — Measurements of
holotype
: prodorsum: length 167, width 121, height 51; notogaster: length 296, width 195, height 177.
Smallsized
species; colour brown; surface of body covered with cerotegument and with small concavities.
Prodorsum
without lateral carinae; posterior furrows present; sigillar fields indistinct because strong cerotegument; sensilli long, rod-like without head covered with cilia in distal half; other setae short, rodlike, stout, obtuse, rough;
ss
>
ro
>
in
>
le
; exobothridial setae vestigial.
Notogaster
with setae short (
c
1
<‰
c
1
-
d
1
), rigid, stout, obtuse, rough, setae
c
1
and
c
3
remote from anterior margin, setae
c
3
more than
c
1
, setae
c
2
considerably further; only lyrifissures
ip
visible.
Ventral region
;
Formula
of genital setae: 5: 4; anoadanal plates with rough setae, setae
ad
2
the thickest and longest.
Legs
: formulae of setae and solenidia of “incomplete type”, setae
v’
absent; setae
d
on femora I slightly remote from distal end of article
.
FIGURE 64:
Atropacarus
(
Hoplophorella
)
brevipilis
(
Balogh, 1958
)
(specimen from Kenya): A – prodorsum, dorsal view; B – prodorsum, lateral view; C – opisthosoma, lateral view; D – left genitoaggenital plate; E – left anoadanal plate; G – trochanter and femur of leg I.
FIGURE 65:
Atropacarus
(
Hoplophorella
)
curtisetosus
Niedbała et Starý, 2014
(holotype): A – prodorsum, dorsal view; B – lateral view of body; C – left genitoaggenital and anoadanal plates; D – trochanter and femur of leg I.
Locality in
Tanzania
: The Uluguru Mts:
Niedbała & Starý 2014b
.
Distribution — Afrotropical species known only from
Tanzania
, probably endemic.