Steneotarsonemus (Linzhangia) subfurcatus Lin and Zhang, 1990

Ganguly, Moumi, Mondal, Priyankar & Karmakar, Krishna, 2022, Complementary description of three species of Steneotarsonemus (Acari: Tarsonemidae) from rice agroecosystems of Eastern India with notes on their taxonomic status, spatial distribution, intraspecific variation and species composition, Zootaxa 5138 (5), pp. 501-532 : 517

Steneotarsonemus (Linzhangia) subfurcatus Lin and Zhang, 1990 comb. nov.

Diagnosis: Adult female: Dorsal shields ornamented with faint punctations; seta v1 positioned anteriad stigmata; atrium globular; bothridial seta absent; all dorsal setae smooth except v2 which is coarse; seta sc2 conspicuously thicker than other dorsal setae; distance between bases of sc2 nearly equal to its length; seta 3b one-fourth length of 3a; sejugal apodeme reduced to small lateral remnants; prosternal apodeme posteriorly bifurcated and diffusely joins apodemes 2; poststernal apodeme broken and with distinct cleft medially; seta l' of femur I peg like and barbed; seta v'Ti sparsely barbed, about one-fourth length of seta tc''. Adult male: sc1 almost as long as setae sc2; distance between bases of sc2 nearly equal to its length; seta c2 not reaching base of c1; setae c1 not reaching bases of d; prosternal apodeme conspicuous only up to slightly above the proximal end of apodemes 2; poststernal apodeme weakly connected with apodemes 3 and 4; seta 3a thrice the length of 3b; seta l' and l'' of femur I and l'' of genu I apically blunt and sparsely barbed; seta v' of tibia II barbed; femorogenu IV without flange; seta v'F bifurcated and dentate along the inner groove.