Auriculatus Reis and Navia, 2014

Reis, Aleuny Coutinho, Jr, Manoel Guedes Corrêa Gondim, Flechtmann, Carlos Holger Wenzel & Navia, Denise, 2014, New eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from cultivated plants from northeastern Brazil, including the second taxon in the Prothricinae, Journal of Natural History 48 (19), pp. 1135-1152 : 1140-1142

Auriculatus Reis and Navia , gen. nov.

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Diagnosis

Auriculatus gen. nov. is an Anthocoptini with three dorsal opisthosoma ridges, middorsal and sublateral ridges begin on third annulus, middorsal ridge stronger than sublaterals; deep cleft between prodorsal shield and opisthosoma; first dorsal opisthosomal annulus formed into a broad plate bearing round lateral lobes (like shoulder blades). This new genus is near Notallus Keifer, 1975 and can be distinguished from it by the first dorsal opisthosomal annuli modified into a broad plate (in Notallus first dorsal annuli are narrow and subequal dorsoventrally, followed by tergites).

Type species

Auriculatus clitoria sp. nov.

Etymology

Auriculatus , from “ auricula ”, Latin. Feminine, meaning ear-lobe and the suffix -atus, meaning possession. It refers to the pair of lobe-like flaps on the first dorso-opisthosomal annulus. Gender: Feminine.

Figures

Figure 3. Auriculatus clitoria gen. nov., sp. nov. CGM, coxigenital region, male; D, dorsal habitus, female; em, empodium, leg I, female; LM, lateral habitus, female; L1, leg I, female; L2, leg II, female; V, ventral habitus, female.

Figure 4. Auriculatus clitoria gen. nov., sp. nov. (A) Dorsal habitus, female; (B) ventral habitus, female; (C) lateral habitus, female; (D) leg I and II, female; (E) epigynum; (F) genitalia, male; (G) empodium, female.