Notophthiracarus sacyae
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Notophthiracarus sacyae (Mahunka, 1983)
(Fig. 58 A-F)
Steganacarus sacyae Mahunka, 1983.
Notophthiracarus sacyae: Niedbała 2001.
Diagnosis — Measurements of holotype: prodorsum: length 228, width 167, height 81, setae: in 30, le 23, ro 28; notogaster: length 429, width 293, height 288, setae: h 1 and ps 1 48; genitoaggenital plate 126×109, anoadanal plate 147×116. Mediumsized species; colour brown; anterior part of prodorsum foveolated; integument of notogaster ornamented with large foveolae which are flowershaped, consisting of 4-5 little and round parts. Prodorsum without lateral carinae; posterior furrows present; sigillar fields narrow, joined, median field with deep sinus between rostral setae; sensilli long, narrow, s-shaped, tapering; other setae short (ss > in > ro > le), spiniform and rough, except vestigial exobothridial setae; distance between rostral setae longer than between lamellar and interlamellar setae. Notogaster with short (c 1 < c 1 - d 1), rough setae; 2 pairs of lyrifissures ia and im present. Ventral region; setae h of mentum longer than distance between them; formula of genital setae: 4: 5; anal setae shorter than adanal, all setae rough, setae ad 1 situated near paraxial margin. Leg chaetome complete; setae d of femora I bifurcate distal end.
Locality in Tanzania: The Kilimanjaro Mts: Mahunka 1983a, Niedbała 2001.
Distribution — Afrotropical species known only from Tanzania, probably endemic.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Phthiracaridae
- Genus
- Notophthiracarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Oribatida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Mahunka
- Species
- sacyae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Notophthiracarus sacyae (Mahunka, 1983) sec. Niedbała, 2017
References
- Niedbala W. 2001 - Study on the diversity of ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) and quest for centres of its origin: the fauna of the Ethiopian region - Monographs of the Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom, 3: 1 - 245.
- Mahunka S. 1983 a - Oribatids from the eastern part of the Ethiopian region. II - Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientarum Hungaricae, 29 (1 - 3): 151 - 180.