Tenuipalpus Donnadieu, 1876

Castro, Elizeu B., Feres, Reinaldo J. F., Ochoa, Ronald & Bauchan, Gary R., 2016, A new species of Tenuipalpus sensu stricto (Acari: Tenuipalpidae) from Brazil, with ontogeny and a key to the known species, Zootaxa 4088 (3), pp. 355-378 : 356

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.