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De Leon, 1961
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species:
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FE80B896FD9C135C" box="[294,542,1514,1536]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">Priscapalpus macropilis</emphasis>
De Leon, 1961: 94
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. By monotypy
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Palps 2-segmented; palp tarsus with 2 phaneres and 1 dorsal seta; anterior margin of prodorsum with long, narrow forked projection extending medially, with small lateral projection; opisthosoma with 89 pairs of setae (
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absent;
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present or absent); some dorsal setae much longer and thicker than other dorsal setae, except
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short, narrow, setiform; dorsal cuticle and leg cuticle heavily sculptured with tubercles; ventral and genital shields fused in large broad shield, weakly developed, transversely striate; genital setae arranged more or less transversely along posterior margin of shield; metapodal shields absent; 2 pairs of
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setae, anal plate well defined, setae
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on small tubercle with seta curving upwards around body margin,
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inserted transversely on anal plates; trochanter IV bare; genu IIIIV with 1 seta; tibia III with 5 setae; tarsi 9(1)-9(1)-5-5 (seta
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present); empodia claw-like. Spermatheca unknown.
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FEE2BA0DFE5A12D6" box="[324,472,1905,1930]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">Priscapalpus</emphasis>
De Leon
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is a small genus previously comprising three species from the Neotropical and Afrotropical regions (De Leon 1961, 1965; Meyer 1979; Mesa
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2009). Our concept of the genus is reduced to exclude the Afrotropical species
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FD2CBAC5FC16128E" box="[650,916,1977,2002]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">Priscapalpus thomissus</emphasis>
Meyer
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, which is now placed in
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. Thus,
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FF7BBAA1FEF312AA" box="[221,369,2013,2038]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">Priscapalpus</emphasis>
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now comprises just
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FDF1BAA2FD6B12AA" box="[599,745,2013,2038]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">P. macropilis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB3BF20FCB9BAA2FC1812AA" box="[799,922,2013,2038]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="54">P. cherretti</emphasis>
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, both from the Neotropical region.
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After examining the
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specimens of
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,
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FC04BDE5FB9F15EC" box="[930,1053,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">P. cherretti</emphasis>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FBFDBDE5FB6715EC" box="[1115,1253,151,176]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">P. thomissus</emphasis>
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, it was revealed that several generic-level characters in the original descriptions were inaccurate, and that the former two species share several characters that the latter species does not.
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FCBCBDA3FBA715A4" box="[794,1061,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Priscapalpus thomissus</emphasis>
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does not have fused ventral and genital plates, there are no setae in the F-row, the anterior margin of the prodorsum has a lobed projection (two large median lobes flanked by two smaller lateral lobes), trochanter IV has one seta (nude in
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and
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FF31BC30FF741439" box="[151,246,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">cherretti</emphasis>
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), genua IIIIV are nude (one seta present in
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and
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FC3CBC30FC7B1439" box="[922,1017,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">cherretti</emphasis>
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), and tarsal claws are pad-like.
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The two current members of the genus are highly distinctive flat mites, but resemble the diverse and widespread genus
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by lacking dorsal setae
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and
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(one species also lacks
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). Unlike
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,
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has fewer palpal segments (2 versus 4), anal setae set transversely on the anal plates (medially and longitudinally in
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FE5EBCA0FDFC14A9" box="[504,638,476,501]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Brevipalpus</emphasis>
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), and ventral and genital plates fused into a single broad shield (always strongly developed in
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FE29BC83FD971744" box="[399,533,511,536]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Brevipalpus</emphasis>
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), and tarsal claws are uncinate. Furthermore, some dorsal setae are several times longer than others, whereas most
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FD8EBF58FD2C1761" box="[552,686,548,573]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Brevipalpus</emphasis>
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have all dorsal setae more or less of subequal length, or have differences that are not quite as striking.
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<paragraph id="8BEDEA03FFB0BF23FF61BF10FDD31601" blockId="2.[151,1436,151,861]" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">
A further two Oriental species,
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FD8BBF10FCF617D9" box="[557,884,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Priscapalpus gurdaspurensis</emphasis>
Kaur and Sadana, 1999
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and
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FB1ABF10FA1E17D8" box="[1212,1436,620,645]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Priscapalpus piarai</emphasis>
Sadana and Sidhu, 1989
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, are
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because they were described from immature stages (Mesa
<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FAABBFEDFABD17F4" box="[1293,1343,655,680]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">et al</emphasis>
., 2009). These species are certainly not
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FE5BBFC8FD131791" box="[509,657,692,717]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Priscapalpus</emphasis>
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because they have four-segmented palps and the dorsal setae are all subequal in length. The immature stage of
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FDD0BFABFC8817AC" box="[630,778,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Priscapalpus</emphasis>
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is known for the deutonymph of
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FB26BFA5FA9117AC" box="[1152,1299,727,752]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">P. macropilis</emphasis>
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only, which —like the adult—has some extremely long dorsal setae, although some of these setae change form between the deutonymph and adult (De Leon 1961). Both
<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FD0EBE5DFCC71664" box="[680,837,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">incertae sedis</emphasis>
species match the deutonymphs of
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<emphasis id="B9263611FFB0BF23FB42BE63FAE81664" box="[1252,1386,799,824]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="55">Brevipalpus</emphasis>
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and here considered to represent this genus.
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