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What constitutes
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In this confused context, we follow
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in recognizing the separate family
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(diagnosed by
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and
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), thereby leaving
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED6040FABAFA47F972" box="[1342,1479,1287,1311]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Aquanothrus</emphasis>
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,
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED660DFA94FC78F92C" box="[883,1016,1321,1345]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Chudalupia</emphasis>
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in
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. A new diagnosis of this family concept—which is supported largely by the shared regression of pedotecta—is offered below. An excellent diagnosis of
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can be found in
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and a brief one for
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED673EFA2CFD45F9C4" box="[576,709,1425,1449]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Chudalupia</emphasis>
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in
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, but it should be corrected and emended by material in many of the following Remarks. In some respects,
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seems the most similar of these genera to
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: it has the deeply black, globular bothridial seta characteristic of most
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, and a strong tibia I apophysis, typical of
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and
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but not found in other
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. It has the
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-tubercle and apobasic setae but lacks the ascleritic notogastral band and the various leg setal regressions that link
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with
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and
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED66F5F9DDFBB9FA15" box="[907,1081,1632,1656]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Paraquanothrus</emphasis>
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.
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We also resurrect
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family-group, originally proposed as
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, but recognize it as the ameronothrid subfamily
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, which includes
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED6041F918FA4EFAD0" box="[1343,1486,1701,1725]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Aquanothrus</emphasis>
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and
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. In part, its resurrection highlights a distinct clade within a family that is not otherwise well-supported. But it is justified also by new knowledge of diversity, including our discovery of two North American species of
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and two unnamed African species of
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<emphasis id="B95AD871FFF1FFED6725F892FD64FB2A" box="[603,740,1839,1863]" italics="true" pageId="47" pageNumber="603">Aquanothrus</emphasis>
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, with probably others of each genus yet to be discovered. In a practical sense, recognition of the taxon will help prevent this small, but interesting group from being overlooked or subsumed when the evolution and systematics of ameronothroid mites are discussed.
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<bibRefCitation id="EFBF7992FFF1FFED676DF807FD70FBBF" author="Engelbrecht C. M." box="[531,752,1978,2002]" pageId="47" pageNumber="603" pagination="53 - 88" refId="ref44476" refString="Engelbrecht C. M. 1975. New ameronothroid (Oribatei: Acari) taxa from the Republic of South Africa and the Islands Gough and Marion. Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum, Bloemfontein, 3: 53 - 88." type="journal article" year="1975">Engelbrechts (1975)</bibRefCitation>
diagnosis of
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was short and based on only
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,
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the description of which had important errors and omissions, so we provide a new one for the subfamily. In both diagnoses, traits considered synapomorphies in the context of the respective taxon are underlined.
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