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Tetra Keifer 1944

Description

Tetra Keifer, 1944

Type species. Phyllocoptruta concava Keifer, 1939d: 489, 501.

Diagnosis. Body fusiform; scapular setae (sc) and tubercles near rear shield margin, directed posteriorly; legs with usual segmentation and setae, empodium entire; coxae I and coxae II each with 3 setae; opisthosoma with a furrow.

This genus consists of 87 species (Amrine et al. 2003). Eleven of these have been recorded from Asia.

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng & Zhang, Zhi-Qiang, 2009, 2257, pp. 1-128 in Zootaxa 2257 on page 87

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Keifer
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Eriophyidae
Genus
Tetra
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Tetra Keifer, 1944 sec. Xue & Zhang, 2009

References

  • Keifer, H. H. (1944) Eriophyid Studies XIV. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 33, 18 - 38.
  • Keifer, H. H. (1939 d) Eriophyid Studies VII. Bulletin of the California Department of Agriculture, 28, 484 - 505.
  • 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.