Hoplocheylus
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Description
Key to species of the genus Hoplocheylus
(incomplete described H. aethiopicus (Cooreman, 1951) is not included)
1. Tarsus I with 2 solenidia, genua II–IV with 4-4-5 setae, respectively............................................ 2
- Tarsus I with 1 solenidion, genua II–IV with 3-3-2 setae, respectively......................................................................................... H. arnoldii Livshits and Mitrofanov, 1973. Russia (Crimean peninsula)
2. Solenidion on tibia IV present........................................................................... 3
- Solenidion on tibia IV absent........................................................................... 6
3. Hysterosoma with 1 midsternal plate between coxal fields II and III............................................ 4
- Hysterosoma with 3 midsternal plates between coxal fields II and III... H. johnstoni Atyeo and Baker, 1964. North America
4. Setae f distinctly longer than e........................................................................... 5
- Setae e and f subequal....................................... P. longispinus Atyeo and Baker, 1964. North America
5. Setae f very long, more than 2 times longer than e and reaching beyond posterior margin of body, solenidion on tarsus II very long, reaching tips of claws........................... H. atomarius (Berlese, 1913). Southern Europe, North America
- Setae f much shorter, about 1.5 times longer than e and not reaching posterior margin of body, solenidion on tarsus II reaching only tip of tarsus....................................... H. americanus Delfinado and Baker, 1974. North America
6. Solenidion ω 1 distinctly longer than ω 2.................................................................... 7
- Solenidion ω 1 distinctly shorter than ω 2....................................................................................................... H. sogdianicus Barilo and Sharipov, 1987. Middle Asia (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
7. Setae 4 a and ag 1 situated on plates....................................................................... 8
- Setae 4 a and ag 1 situated on soft striated cuticle.... H. fereshtae Amin, Khanjani and Ueckermann, 2014. Middle Asia (Iran)
8. Solenidion ω 1 not reaching beyond tip of tarsus, tarsus I with 13 setae … H. pickardi Smiley and Moser 1968. North America
- Solenidion ω 1 distinctly reaching beyond tip of tarsus, tarsus I with 14 setae.............................................................................................. H. magnificus Khaustov sp. nov. Western Siberia (Russia)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tarsocheylidae
- Genus
- Hoplocheylus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Trombidiformes
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Taxon rank
- genus
References
- Cooreman, J. (1951) Notes et observations sur les acariens (IV). Bulletin Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 27, 11 - 12.
- Livshits, I. Z. & Mitrofanov, V. I. (1973) A new species of the genus Hoplocheylus (Tarsocheylidae, Acariformes). Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 52, 1576 - 1577. [in Russian]
- Atyeo, W. T. & Baker, E. W. (1964) Tarsocheylidae, a new family of prostigmatic mites (Acarina). Bulletin of the University of Nebraska State Museum, 4, 243 - 256.
- Berlese, A. (1913) Acari nuovi. Manipoli VII-VIII. Redia, 9, 77 - 111.
- Delfinado, M. D. & Baker, E. W. (1974) Terrestrial mites of New York (Acarina: Prostigmata), I-Tarsocheylidae, Paratydeidae, and Pseudocheylidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 82, 202 - 211.
- Barilo, A. B. & Sharipov, S. A. (1987) Hoplocheylus sogdianicus sp. n. (Prostigmata, Tarsocheylidae) from central Asia. Zoologicheskiy Zhurnal, 66, 1892 - 1893. [in Russian]
- Amin, M. R., Khanjani, M. & Ueckermann, E. A. (2014) First record of the family Tarsocheylidae from Iran with the description of a new species (Acari: Trombidiformes). Acarina, 22, 40 - 45.
- Smiley, R. L. & Moser, J. C. (1968) New species of mites from pine (Acarina: Tarsocheylidae, Eupalopsellidae, Caligonellidae, Cryptognathidae, Raphignathidae, and Neophyllobiidae). Proceedings of the entomological society of Washington, 70, 307 - 317.