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(
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)
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male length 306 μm, breadth 195 μm.
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females (
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= 5): mean length 333 μm (range 331337); mean breadth 222 μm (range 217226).
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males (
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= 4): mean length 313 μm (range 305323); mean breadth 204 μm (range 195212). Ratio of prodorsum to total length: 0.41 (
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).
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467CFFD1C79CB7C81604DA8A" bold="true" box="[151,288,1239,1263]" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">FIGURE 12.</emphasis>
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, adult (a) dorsal aspect; (b) ventral aspect. Scale bar = 100 μm.
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: rostrum rounded; rostral setae (
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) short, curved, smooth, visible in dorsal aspect. Lamellae broad, extending beyond lateral margin of prodorsum, separated medially, lateral margins convex, without translamella (
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). Lamellar seta (
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) long, smooth, incurved, emerging from apex of lamellar cusp just anterior of long, thin, medially-directed lamellar tooth. Interlamellar seta (
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) thin, relatively short, flagelliform with thick cylinder of cerotegument basally, emerging from lateral margin of inverted V-shaped prodorsal ridge. Bothridia prominent, overlapping laterally with inner margins of humeral processes, openings angled anterolaterally, anterior margin with squat tubercle, posterior margin with anterior condyle of enantiophysis H in form of V-shaped projection. Bothridial seta long, recurved, apex slightly expanded with fine spines. Curved ridge with wavy margin on prodorsum between bothridia.
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467CFFD1C7CCB5991665D8FA" box="[199,321,1670,1695]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Notogaster</emphasis>
: ratio of length to breadth: 0.89; notogaster U-shaped, convex. Humeral processes narrow, with few small scattered tubercles, lateral margin convex, medial margin concave, with V-shaped basal indentation laterally and slight notch medially, apex pointed extending anteriorly to point level with middle of lamella (
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). With eight pairs of notogastral setae:
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,
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and
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and
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series present, setae of
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and
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series flat, leaf-shaped, slightly curved, with pectinate margins (
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), in centrodorsal position;
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series short, smooth, curved, visible in dorsal view.
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467CFFD1C7CCB426164CD936" box="[199,360,1849,1875]" italics="true" pageId="29" pageNumber="30">Ventral aspect</emphasis>
: subcapitulum acute apically; subcapitular setae short, smooth, seta
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twice as long as
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and
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(
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). Chelicerae chelate-dentate, of normal proportions. Tutorium not visible in ventral aspect. Epimeral plates I-III discrete, separated in midline, sub-rectangular to sub-triangular, plates I with a small ovoid depression between them, plates IV lacking posterior margin; epimeral setation 2-1-3-2; setae 4b slightly longer than others. Pedotectum I (pd I) sub-rectangular in lateral outline; pd II small, blunt, sub-rectangular, not projecting beyond lateral margin of pd I; discidium well-developed, blunt, pointed. Ventral plate U-shaped, broader than long, with cluster of short tubercles near circumpedal carina. Genital and anal plates separated by distance about same as length of genital plates; genital plates 35 µm long, with six pairs of setae aligned longitudinally,
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longer than others, distance between
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and
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markedly greater than between
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and
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; lyrifissure
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in para-anal position, close to margin of anal plate. Anal plates lozenge-shaped, 49 µm long; setae of the
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series very short. Pre-anal organ (po) oval.
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.
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accession no. 53-1044,
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accession no. 53-1045,
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, litter, rainforest,
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[Mont Koghi],
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. [summit], coll. P.S. Ward,
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.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C31125E1467FFFD2C7CCB2C415E5DC7C" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="etymology">
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C7CCB2C4166CDF90" bold="true" box="[199,328,475,501]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Etymology</emphasis>
. This species is named in honour of its collector, Professor Philip S. Ward, Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of
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, Davis.
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<subSubSection id="C31125E1467FFFD2C7CCB13D1462DC94" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C7CCB13D1666DC59" bold="true" box="[199,322,546,572]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C647B13C1515DC58" box="[332,561,547,573]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Neseutegaeus wardi</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from the other species in the genus by the following combination of characters: (1) the prominent bothridia, extending well beyond the lateral margin of the prodorsum; (2) the curved ridge between the bothridia; (3) the scattered tubercles on the humeral process; (4) the flattened, pectinate setae of the
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and
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series; (5) the epimeral setal formula 2-1-3-2; (6) epimeres I with a small ovoid depression between them; (7) the marked gap between genital setae
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and
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compared with the other genital setae; (8) the cluster of small tubercles near the circumpedal carina.
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<subSubSection id="C31125E1467FFFD2C7CCB1E415E6DA74" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" type="discussion">
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C7CCB1E4161FDD70" bold="true" box="[199,315,763,789]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Remarks.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName id="4C0B0DE9467FFFD2C64FB1E4150CDD70" authorityName="Colloff" authorityYear="2023" box="[324,552,763,789]" class="Arachnida" family="Eutegaeidae" genus="Neseutegaeus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Sarcoptiformes" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wardi">
<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C64FB1E4150CDD70" box="[324,552,763,789]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Neseutegaeus wardi</emphasis>
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is not particularly morphologically similar to other species of
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C3F0B1E412B1DD71" box="[1275,1429,763,788]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Neseutegaeus</emphasis>
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. The setae of the
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and
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series are leaf-like, pectinate, and in the centrodorsal position, like those of
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C217B00012B8DD5D" box="[1308,1436,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. spinatus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EF9A0B9B467FFFD2C79CB05C161FDD38" author="Woolley, T. A." box="[151,315,834,861]" pageId="30" pageNumber="31" pagination="381 - 388" refId="ref69684" refString="Woolley, T. A. (1965) Eutegaeidae, a new family of oribatid mites, with a description of a new species from New Zealand (Acarina: Oribatei). Acarologia, 7, 381 - 388." type="journal article" year="1965">Woolley, 1965</bibRefCitation>
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(cf.
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, Fig. 98b therein), though the spines on the setae of
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C37FB05C13F2DD38" box="[1140,1238,835,861]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. wardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are much longer. Unlike
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C7E6B0781675DDE4" box="[237,337,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. wardi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C669B07816C7DDE5" box="[354,483,871,896]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. spinatus</emphasis>
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has heavily striated lamellae, a partial translamella and the interlamellar setae are setiform, not flagelliform.
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C6CFB0941582DDC0" box="[452,678,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Neseutegaeus wardi</emphasis>
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differs from
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C436B09414F4DDC0" box="[829,976,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. consimilis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C303B09413AADDC0" box="[1032,1166,907,933]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. distentus</emphasis>
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in that their notogastral setae are thin, curved and smooth. The new species differs from
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C463B0B014C9DDAD" box="[872,1005,943,968]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. angustus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C328B0B0135EDDAC" box="[1059,1146,943,969]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">N. latus</emphasis>
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in that these species have notogastral setae of the
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series that differ in morphology from the
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series.
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<emphasis id="B97FAA78467FFFD2C4E1B0CC13EFDD88" box="[1002,1227,979,1005]" italics="true" pageId="30" pageNumber="31">Neseutegaeus wardi</emphasis>
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is the first species in the genus to be recorded outside
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.
</paragraph>
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