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Genus
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species:
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B800994BF8A2FE48A555" box="[301,501,506,529]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Neoscirula theroni</emphasis>
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The genus
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was erected by
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and was consequently included in the subfamily Coleoscirinae (
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). It was transferred by
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to the subfamily Bonzinae
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(
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: The original spelling of the latter subfamily name is with a single
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) mainly on the grounds of these mites having, according to his interpretation, a pair of geniculate
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setae, a feature not mentioned in the original description of this genus.
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referred to this pair of setae as being “semi-geniculate” in
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B80099E9FA52FDE6A467" box="[399,603,778,803]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Neoscirula sevidi</emphasis>
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. This could have led to the statement by
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that
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009D7DFA52FA21A467" box="[1307,1436,778,803]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Neoscirula</emphasis>
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had geniculate setae
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which is actually not the case for any known species of this genus. The authors of this paper are of opinion that the genus should stay in the Coleoscirinae for reasons subsequently presented.
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Smileys (1992) first step to divide the family
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is based on the presence of a pair of
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setae
<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B80098BDFAF2FEA5A480" bold="true" box="[219,280,938,964]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">hg 1,</emphasis>
regarding bent setae (common in most
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009A9EFAF2FCC5A487" box="[760,888,938,963]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Neoscirula</emphasis>
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spp.) also as such. In order to be precise, the meaning of the term
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has been determined from various sources. The specific explanation is: “...bent at a
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or
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angle….”. In the
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geniculate structures occur only in two genera, i.e. in all
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B80098D9FD7AFEADA37F" box="[191,272,1058,1083]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Bonzia</emphasis>
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spp. and in an unpublished species of
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.
</emphasis>
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redescribed
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009CB9FD7AFA21A37F" box="[1247,1436,1058,1083]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">B. halacaroides</emphasis>
Oudemans
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and
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B800992BFD13FE40A320" box="[333,509,1099,1124]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">B. sphagnicola</emphasis>
Willmann
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, illustrating what he regarded as geniculate
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setae. When investigating the
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009940FD2BFE3CA3C8" box="[294,385,1139,1164]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Cunaxa</emphasis>
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spp.
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&amp;
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) illustrated a peculiar pair of
<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009C20FD2AFBE0A3C8" bold="true" box="[1094,1117,1138,1164]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">vi</emphasis>
sensillae (fig. 1) which he also regards as
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.
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B80098F1FF28FEA4A1CC" bold="true" box="[151,281,1648,1672]" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">FIGURE 1.</emphasis>
Geniculate sensillae as in a
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009A21FF29FD27A1CC" box="[583,666,1649,1672]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Cunaxa</emphasis>
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spp.
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The first author of this paper is of the opinion that a new genus or subfamily should not be erected based on one species which differs from the other 2025 species only by having geniculate sensillae
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. This means that
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setal structures should not be used as a first criterion for dividing a family (see
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; p. 37). When this concept is strictly applied, only the genus
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009B26FE09FC2FA02E" box="[832,914,1873,1898]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Bonzia</emphasis>
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has a pair of true geniculate
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setae (fig. 2). The
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-setae of the genera
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009A70FE21FD22A0D6" box="[534,671,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Parabonzia</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB502B8009ABEFE21FCE4A0D6" box="[728,857,1913,1938]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="52">Neoscirula</emphasis>
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should be regarded as non-geniculate but bent in varying degree.
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Den
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, in press) also made a change in the notation of the ventral idiosomal chaetotaxy of the
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.
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The original three species included in
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<emphasis id="5EB3835FB501B8039AE4F9C0FCBEA7F5" box="[642,771,152,177]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="53">Neoscirula</emphasis>
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were described by
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from
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; he added a fourth species in 1980.
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described one species from
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while
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added three more species from North-America and
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. Corpuz-Raros (1996) reported on seven species from the
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. Four species were described from
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, two by
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and two by
<bibRefCitation id="085622BCB501B80398DDF860FE10A616" author="Lin" box="[187,429,312,338]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61" refString="Lin, J. &amp; Zhang, Y. (2002) Two new species of the Bonziinae (sic) from China (Acari: Cunaxidae). Systematic &amp; Applied Acarology, 7, 143 - 148." type="journal article" year="2002">Lin &amp; Zhang (2002)</bibRefCitation>
.
<bibRefCitation id="085622BCB501B80399D1F860FC17A616" author="Mejia-Recamier" box="[439,938,312,338]" pageId="2" pageNumber="61" refString="Mejia-Recamier, B. E. &amp; Palacios-Vargas, J. G. 2007. Three new species of Neoscirula (Prostigmata: Cunaxidae) from a tropical dry forest in Jalisco, Mexico. Zootaxa 1545, 17 - 31." type="journal article" year="2007">Mejia-Recamier &amp; Palacios-Vargas (2007)</bibRefCitation>
described three species from
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. The present paper describes three new Brazilian species.
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