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Nothrholaspis Berlese 1918

Description

Genus Nothrholaspis Berlese, 1918

Macrocheles (Nothrholaspis) Berlese, 1918: 169. Type species. Holostaspis tridentinus G. & R. Canestrini, 1882 (= Gamasus tardus Koch, 1841), by original designation.

Macrocheles (Scleritholaspis) Mašán, 2003: 80. Type species. Gamasus carinatus Koch, 1839, by original designation (synonymy by Emberson, 2010).

Diagnosis. Nothrholaspis has three pairs of small platelets in the membrane between the epigynal and ventri-anal shields; epistome with forked lateral and central branches; and the dorsal seta of the chelicera is pectinate (Emberson, 2010).

Notes

Published as part of Babaeian, Esmaeil, Joharchi, Omid & Jamshidian, Maryam Keshavarz, 2014, A new species of the genus Nothrholaspis Berlese (Acari: Macrochelidae) from Iran, pp. 585-590 in Zootaxa 3784 (5) on page 586, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/224420

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References

  • Berlese, A. (1918) Centuria quarta di acari nuovi. Redia, 13, 113 - 190.
  • Masan, P. (2003) Macrochelid Mites of Slovakia (Acari: Mesostigmata: Macrochelidae). Institue of Zoology, Slovaki Academi of Sciences, Bratislava, 149 pp.
  • Emberson, R. M. (2010) A reappraisal of some basal lineages of the family Macrochelidae, with the description of a new genus (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Zootaxa, 2501, 37 - 53.