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Catarhinus Keifer 1959

  • 1. Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4003 - 8009 Corresponding author. xfxue @ njau. edu. cn https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6374 - 8601
  • 2. Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4003 - 8009 Corresponding author. xfxue @ njau. edu. cn https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6374 - 8601 & Contributed equally to the first author

Description

Key to species of Catarhinus

1. Coxal plates smooth................................................................................... 2

-. Coxal plates with granules or short lines................................................................... 9

2. Female genital coverflap smooth......................................................................... 3

-. Female genital coverflap with ridges or short lines........................................................... 5

3. Prodorsal shield smooth................................................ C. munnarensis Mohanasundaram, 1991

-. Prodorsal shield with lines.............................................................................. 4

4. Two incomplete admedian lines present on prodorsal shield............................. C. vulgaris Kuang et al., 1990

-. A “U-shape” line present at anterior of prodorsal shield............................... C. raii Mohanasundaram, 1984

5. Prodorsal shield smooth................................................................................ 6

-. Prodorsal shield with lines.............................................................................. 7

6. Opisthosoma with 85 annuli, empodium 10-rayed.............................. C. spontaneae Mohanasundaram, 1984

-. Opisthosoma with 38 annuli, empodium 4-rayed............................................ .. C. mori Huang, 2001

7. Dorsal annuli smooth............................................................... C. axonopi Boczek, 1960

-. Dorsal annuli with granules..............................................................................8

8. Prodorsal shield with two incomplete admdian lines..................................... C. palmifolies Huang, 2001

-. Prodorsal shield with many granules............................................. C. granatus Reis & Navia, 2011

9. Female genital coverflap smooth...................................................... C. sacchari Kuang, 1983

-. Female genital coverflap with ridges or short lines.......................................................... 10

10. Dorsal annuli smooth................................................................................. 11

-. Dorsal annuli with granules............................................................................ 13

11. Median line present on shield........................................................................... 12

-. Median line absent from shield................................................ C. imperatae Chandrapatya, 1993

12. Coxal plates with granules, seta h1 present............................................... C. sanguinalus sp. nov.

-. Coxal plates with short lines, seta h1 absent....................................... C. microstegii Wei & Xie, 2009

13. Prodorsal shield with two short admedian lines and many pits.......................... .. C. pennisetosus Boczek, 1997

-. Prodorsal shield with short submedian lines laterally................................... C. tricholaenae Keifer, 1959

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Li, Ni, 2020, Two new species of diptilomiopid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from China, pp. 560-570 in Zootaxa 4896 (4) on page 564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/4388063

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Keifer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Diptilomiopidae
Genus
Catarhinus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Catarhinus Keifer, 1959 sec. Xue & Li, 2020

References

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  • Boczek, J. (1960) A new genus and three new species of eriophyid mites (Acarina). Journal of Kansas Entomological Society, 33, 9 - 14.
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  • Kuang, H. - Y. (1983) Two new species and one new record of eriophyoid mites from China (Acariformes: Eriophyoidea). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 8 (4), 389 - 391. [in Chinese, with English summary]
  • Chandrapatya, A. & Boczek, J. (1993) Studies on eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea). XII. Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Science, Biological Sciences, 41 (1), 45 - 52.
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