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Elattoma

Description

Key to world species of the genus Elattoma (Females)

1. Seta h 2 absent......................................................................................... 2

- Seta h 2 present........................................................................................ 7

2. Seta pl” on tarsus II spatulate.......................................................................... 3

- Seta pl” on tarsus II spine like........................................................................... 5

3. Solenidion ǫ2 shorter than solenidion ǫ1, seta e longer than seta h 1, setae h 1 bluntly ended............. E. abeskoun sp. nov.

- Solenidion ǫ2 longer than solenidion ǫ1, seta e shorter than seta h 1, setae h 1 pointed.................................. 4

4. Seta f more than three times longer than seta e, seta c 1 longer than seta c 2...................... E. cerambycidum sp. nov.

- Seta f less than three times longer than seta e, seta c 1 shorter than seta c 2.................... E. kornilovi Khaustov, 2000

5. Most hysterosomal setae strong and serrate, solenidion ǫ2 longer than solenidion ǫ1.......... E. alaskensis Khaustov, 2003

- Hysterosomal setae smooth, solenidion ǫ2 shorter than solenidion ǫ1............................................ 6

6. Seta f more than two times longer than seta e, seta h 1 longer than seta e......................... E. alni Khaustov, 2003

- Seta f less than two times longer than seta e, seta h 1 shorter than seta e........................ E. fraxini Khaustov, 2000

7. Seta f more than two times longer seta e....................................... E. bennetti (Cross and Moser, 1971)

- Seta f less than two times longer seta e..................................................................... 8

8. Seta d not reaching to posterior border of tergite D...................................... E. karafiati (Krczal, 1959)

- Seta d reaching to posterior border of tergite D............................................................. 9

9. Solenidion ǫ2 longer than solenidion ǫ1................................................ E. crossi Khaustov, 2000

- Solenidion ǫ2 shorter than solenidion ǫ1................................................. E. lata Khaustov, 2000

Notes

Published as part of Rahiminejad, Vahid, Hajiqanbar, Hamidreza & Fathipour, Yaghoub, 2011, Two new species of the genus Elattoma (Acari: Heterostigmatina: Pygmephoridae) phoretic on Morimus verecundus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from Iran, pp. 48-56 in Zootaxa 2903 on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.204757

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pyemotidae
Genus
Elattoma
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Prostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Females
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Khaustov, A. A. (2000) Mites of the genus Elattoma (Acariformes: Pygmephoridae) from Crimea and North-West Russia. Vestnik Zoologii, 34 (1 - 2), 77 - 83.
  • Khaustov, A. A. (2003) Two new species of the mite genus Elattoma (Acarina: Heterostigmata: Pygmephoridae) from Russia and U. S. A. Acarina, 11 (2), 221 - 224.
  • Cross, E. A. & Moser, J. C. (1971) Taxonomy and biology of some Pyemotidae (Acarina: Tarsonemoidea) inhabiting Bark beetle galleries in North American Conifers. Acarologia, 13 (1), 47 - 64.
  • Krczal, H. (1959) Systematic und Okologie der Pyemoten. In: Stammer H. J. (ed.), Beitrag zur Systematic und Okologie mitteleuropaischer Acarina. Vol. 1, Abschn. 3. Geest und Portig, Leipzig, pp. 385 - 625.