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Podocinidae Berlese 1913

  • 1. Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ) - Universidade de São Paulo (USP), 13418 - 900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. CNPq Researcher. moraesg @ usp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5587 - 1781

Description

Key to genera of Podocinidae (adult females)

1. Anterior region of epistome acuminate; dorsal shield with 40 pairs of setae; with one pair of pre-sternal plates; ventrianal shield with six pairs of preanal setae; leg I slightly shorter than leg IV (both longer than other legs), with pretarsus; genua II, III and IV with six, six and five setae, respectively; tibia IV with seven setae........................... Africoseius (Figs 1–4)

- Anterior region of epistome trispinate; dorsal shield with 11–23 pairs of setae; pre-sternal plates absent; ventrianal shield with 3–4 pairs of preanal setae; leg I much longer than other legs, without pretarsus; genua II, III and IV with seven, seven, six setae, respectively; tibia IV with six setae....................................................................... 2

2. Leg I antenna-like, terminating in two whip-like setae....................................... Podocinum (Figs 5–8)

- Leg I antenna-like, terminating in a single whip-like seta.................................... Podocinella (Figs 9–12)

Notes

Published as part of Barros, Avyla R. A., Castilho, Raphael C. & De Moraes, Gilberto J., 2020, Catalogue of the mite family Podocinidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 141-156 in Zootaxa 4802 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/3904968

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Berlese
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Podocinidae
Taxon rank
family
Taxonomic concept label
Podocinidae Berlese, 1913 sec. Barros, Castilho & Moraes, 2020