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Cosella Newkirk & Keifer 1975

Description

Cosella Newkirk & Keifer, 1975

Type species. Floracarus deleoni Keifer, 1956: 161–163.

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; prodorsal shield with short frontal lobe, scapular tubercles ahead of rear shield margin, scapular setae directed backward; anterolateral setae on coxisternum I (1b) absent, prosternal apodeme absent; leg tibia reduced or fused with tarsus.

This genus consists of 22 species (Amrine et al. 2003). Four species have been recorded from Southeast Asia.

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 19

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Newkirk & Keifer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Eriophyidae
Genus
Cosella
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Cosella Newkirk, 1975 sec. Xue & Zhang, 2009

References

  • Amrine, J. W. Jr., Stasny, T. A. & Flechtmann, C. H. W. (2003) Revised keys to world genera of Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata). Indira Publishing House, Michigan, U. S. A., 244 pp.