Tenuipalpus Donnadieu 1876
- 1. Programa de Pós Graduação em Biologia Animal, UNESP-Universidade Estadual Paulista, campus de São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil
- 2. Depto. de Zoologia e Botânica, UNESP, Rua Cristovão Colombo, 2265, Jardim Nazareth, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, 15054 - 000, CNPq-Brazil researcher
- 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory (SEL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre (BARC), Maryland, 20705, USA.
- 4. Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit (ECMU), ARS-USDA, BARC, Beltsville, Maryland, 20705, USA.
Description
Genus Tenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1876
Type species: Tenuipalpus palmatus Donnadieu, 1876 (= Tenuipalpus caudatus (Dugès, 1834))
Diagnosis. Female: Body shape with prodorsum wider than opisthosoma or elongate-ovate; prodorsum with three pairs of setae (v2, sc1, sc2, except v2 absent in T. elegans (Collyer)); dorsal opisthosoma with eight to ten pairs of setae (c3, d3, e3, f3, h1, h2 present; c2, d2, e2 absent; c1, d1, e1, f2 present or absent (d1, e1 rarely absent); setae h2 elongate, flagellate. Palp one to three segmented. Venter with one to two pairs of setae 3a (3a2 present or absent) and one to four pairs of setae 4a (4a2, 4a3, 4a4 present or absent); ventral and genital plates not developed, membranous genital flap present; commonly two pairs of pseudanal setae ps1 – 2 present (setae ps3 rarely present). Male: Opisthosoma distinctly narrower than that of female; legs and dorsal setae usually similar to those of female; pseudanal setae ps1 modified as accessory genital stylet.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tenuipalpidae
- Genus
- Tenuipalpus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Prostigmata
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Donnadieu
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1876 sec. Castro, Feres, Ochoa & Bauchan, 2016
References
- Donnadieu, A. L. (1876) Recherches pour servir a l'histoire des Tetranyques. Annales de la Societe Linneene de Lyon, 135 pp., pls. 1 - 12.
- Duges, A. (1834) Recherches pour servir a l'ordre des Acariens en general et la famille des Trombidies en particulier. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Paris, (ser. 2) 1, 5 - 46.