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Holoparasitus calcaratus Koch

Description

Holoparasitus calcaratus species-group (Witaliński & Skorupski, 2002)

Diagnosis. Female. Anterior margin of presternal plate smooth; endogynium cup-shaped with three main thorns, one smaller located anteroaxially and the two larger ones posterolaterally, additional denticles may also be present; fixed digit of chelicera with 4 or more well pronounced teeth; gv 2 in unmodified cuticle.

Male. Sternum with excipulum; gnathotectum with a central prong lobate, truncate or rounded apically, sometimes with minute denticles at the apex, lateral prongs present; fixed digit of chelicera with a row of minute denticles or toothless, movable digit with several teeth.

Included species:

1. H. calcaratus (Koch, 1839) 2. H. excipuliger (Berlese, 1906)

3. H. kerkirensis Witaliński & Skorupski, 2002 4. H. paradisiacus Witaliński & Skorupski, 2003b 5. H. pollicipatus (Berlese, 1903)

6. H. pseudoperforatus (Berlese, 1906) 7. H. rotulifer (Willmann, 1940)

Notes

Published as part of Witaliński, Wojciech, 2017, Key to the world species of Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 (Acari: Parasitiformes: Parasitidae), pp. 301-351 in Zootaxa 4277 (3) on pages 304-305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/810605

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Parasitidae
Genus
Holoparasitus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Koch
Species
calcaratus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Witalinski, W. & Skorupski, M. (2002) Genus Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 in Berlese Acaroteca (Acari: Gamasida: Parasitidae). Part I. Redia, 85, 37 - 60.
  • Koch, C. L. (1839) Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden. Heft 26. No. 6. Bei Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg, 156 pp.
  • Berlese, A. (1906) Monografia del genere Gamasus Latr. Redia, 3, 66 - 304.
  • Witalinski, W. & Skorupski, M. (2003 b) A new species of Holoparasitus Oudemans, 1936 from North Italy (Acari: Gamasida: Parasitidae). Genus, 14, 431 - 438.
  • Berlese, A. (1903) Acari nuovi. Manipulus Ius. Redia, 1, 235 - 252.
  • Willmann, C. (1940) Neue Milben aus Hohlen der Balkanhalbinsel, gesammelt von Prof. Dr. K. Absolon, Brunn (2. Mitteilung). Zoologischer Anzeiger, 130, 209 - 218.