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Pentamerismus (Oligomerismus) Mitrofanov 1973
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Description
Subgenus Oligomerismus Mitrofanov, 1973 subgen. restored
Oligomerismus Mitrofanov, 1973a: 508.
Type species. Tenuipalpus taxi Haller, 1877: 85.
Diagnosis. As per genus, with setae f 2 absent. Subgenus Oligomerismus includes 11 species.
Remark: The species P. (O.) collinus is an exception, because it has two pairs of pseudanal setae in contrast to all other species of the genus having three pairs of setae. See the comments below.
Notes
Published as part of Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, Elgoni, Nasreldeen Ahmed, Kamran, Muhammad & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2025, Subgenera of the genus Pentamerismus McGregor (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) with the re-description of Pentamerismus retusus Meyer and a key to species of the world, pp. 143-156 in Zootaxa 5601 (1) on page 146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/14980641
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Mitrofanov
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Family
- Tenuipalpidae
- Genus
- Pentamerismus
- Taxon rank
- subGenus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pentamerismus (Oligomerismus) Mitrofanov, 1973 sec. Mirza, Elgoni, Kamran & Alatawi, 2025
References
- Mitrofanov, V. I. (1973 a) Revision of the subfamily Brevipalpinae (Trombidiformes, Tenuipalpidae). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 52, 507-512. [in Russian]
- Haller, G. (1877) Mitteilungen. In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen. Vol. 2. Buhler Buckdrucke, Zurich, pp. 85-89.